LinkNYC turns 10 today 🎉
In a decade, we’ve:
🗽 Served 20+ million users
🛜 Powered 3.5+ billion free Wi-Fi sessions
📶 Connected 35+ million free phone calls
🫰Supported free ad campaigns for 3,000+ small businesses & nonprofits
Free. Fast. For everyone. Forever.
25 years after the horrific terror attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember the New Yorkers we lost and honor the extraordinary heroism and selflessness that carried our city forward.
First responders ran toward danger. Volunteers came from across the city to help. Neighbors opened their doors to strangers, churches became lifelines and ordinary New Yorkers found ways to take care of each other.
There are countless stories like this.
Discover some of them on @LinkNYC kiosks across the city and at https://t.co/se4il0nReC.
LinkNYC is proud to bring Memory Markers: 9/11 to neighborhoods across all five boroughs, sharing stories of the people who helped our city recover. Remembering isn’t just about looking back. It’s about carrying these stories forward: https://t.co/DRh9va5S7Y
Thank you, @LinkNYC for the free advertising you gave Classroom Giving Inc. this past summer. We hope to raise the nutrition level of thousands of students nationwide this school year.
25 years later, the stories of courage, compassion & resilience that emerged from 9/11 still have the power to connect New Yorkers. LinkNYC is proud to help @NYCMayor bring these stories directly to the communities where they unfolded. Learn more: https://t.co/amUltDAWVI
A call for help should always be within reach. On #988Day, we’re reminding New Yorkers that LinkNYC offers free, 24/7 access to 988, citywide. It’s one of the ways LinkNYC helps keep New Yorkers connected to essential services and resources, whenever and wherever they need them.
Spending the day with our NYC youth at the Brooklyn Gigabit Center as they learn valuable tech skills that could also help them earn a few bucks!
Thanks to our partners @DigitalGirlInc, Fix It with Piggy, and @LinkNYC for providing this valuable programming in our city. Check out https://t.co/Z72Q7K9ux0 to learn more!
Hands-on, high-tech skills training is crucial to empowering NYC's future leaders, and that's exactly what students from @DigitalGirlInc and Fix it With Piggy experienced at the Brooklyn Gigabit Center.
NYC CTO Lisa Gelobter joined participants from the Summer Intensive @LinkNYC Leadership Academy & Youth Tech Pathways Program as they explored fiber optic splicing and smartphone repair.
By connecting young New Yorkers with practical, in-demand skills and real-world experience, programs like these are helping build the next generation of innovators and tech leaders!
#DigitalEquity #STEM #WorkforceDevelopment
🏆 One final match. This Sunday at 3 PM ET, watch the @FIFAWorldCup Final as Spain 🇪🇸 takes on Argentina 🇦🇷 LIVE on LinkNYC kiosks across NYC. LinkNYC has helped bring New Yorkers together through the world's game. Join us again at a LinkNYC near you: https://t.co/HmcjPwbRkx
It's a hot one, NYC. And the air quality isn't doing us any favors. Need to cool down? Thousands of LinkNYC kiosks are providing walking directions to your nearest NYC Cooling Center. Proud to partner with @nycemergencymgt and @NYCMayor to help New Yorkers stay cool and safe.
Running an errand at 3pm and worried you’ll miss the Spain VS Belgium quarterfinal? We got you.
Sidewalk streams are back today. Find the closest @LinkNYC kiosk showing the game near you.
https://t.co/9KlutwtmEW
We are heading into a record-breaking heat wave over the next four days—with heat index as high as 115°.
NYC will have 600+ cooling centers open across the five boroughs, in libraries, senior centers, NYCHA facilities etc. (including some which are pet friendly)
To find a cooling center near you, visit https://t.co/nd9yJ12chH or call 311.
LinkNYC kiosks will show real-time walking directions to the nearest cooling center within a 10-minute walk.
Each summer approx 500 NYers die prematurely because of heat-related illness. Please take this heat wave seriously. And check on vulnerable neighbors if you can.
New York: this is not ordinary summer weather. This is dangerous heat that can take lives. Our administration is mobilizing to keep people safe and the city prepared.
We are:
✔️ Opening hundreds of cooling centers. You can find your nearest cooling center at https://t.co/H15g2T3qWX or by calling 311.
✔️ Providing real-time walking directions to nearby cooling centers on thousands of LinkNYC kiosks.
✔️ Deploying 21 COOL vans to bring medical care, water, sunscreen, and transportation directly to our most vulnerable neighbors and check on older adults in their homes.
✔️Expanding outdoor cooling stations with water, misting fans, and cooling towels for outdoor workers including street vendors, deliveristas, and day laborers.
✔️ Contacting more than 75,000 businesses to encourage heat illness plans and remind workers that they can use Protected Time Off for heat-related health issues.
✔️ Extending hours at Olympic- and intermediate-sized outdoor pools until 8:30 p.m.
✔️Connecting neighbors with outdoor cool options like spray showers at https://t.co/8WqzBgONgb.
✔️ Distributing spray caps from local firehouses to adults 18 and over to safely turn fire hydrants into sprinklers.
Extreme heat is headed to New York City over the next few days and we want ALL New Yorkers to stay SAFE.
Thanks to a new @NYCMayorsOffice partnership with @NYCOfficeofTech, @LinkNYC, and @nycemergencymgt, you'll be able to find Cooling Center info on a screen near you!
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city is implementing several new "first-of-their-kind" measures in order to beat the heat.
Thousands of LinkNYC kiosks across the five boroughs will display routes to the nearest cooling center, which Mamdani says shouldn't be more than a 10-minute walk.
There will also be "cool vans" stationed around the city to provide hydration and electrolytes, meals (including vegetarian, kosher and halal options), plus transport to the nearest cooling center.
The next time you're headed to the bodega or taking the train to meet friends, you might catch one of the @FIFAWorldCup matches streaming on 200 @LinkNYC kiosks!
Catch the France v. Norway match THIS Friday, check out the link below for the full schedule:
https://t.co/3YWo8zzgUI
Want to watch the World Cup? @LinkNYC screens all over the City are streaming games every Friday and during the final.
Visit https://t.co/9KlutwtmEW for the full map of all 200 LinkNYC kiosks.
⚽ The world's game on New York's streets!
LinkNYC is turning public spaces across NYC into places of connection and community during the @FIFAWorldCup.
Join us on June 26 at 3pm ET as Norway takes on France LIVE🔴 on LinkNYC. Find a viewing location: https://t.co/HmcjPwbRkx
Starting today, we’re bringing five World Cup matches to 200 @LinkNYC kiosks in all five boroughs.
This historic public partnership with @Telemundo is bringing the beautiful game straight to our sidewalks. Whether you’re grabbing coffee in the Bronx, walking to work in Queens, or taking your kids to the park in Staten Island, you can catch the beautiful game for free.
Right now, watch our boys on the USA men's team playing on select LinkNYC screens across the city. Did you catch that second goal?
Find a kiosk showing the game near you using our LinkNYC World Cup Viewing Map.
https://t.co/475NLdmarW