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Inside the Battle to Bring Broadband to New York’s Projects

Inside the Battle to Bring Broadband to New York’s Projects

Inside the Battle to Bring Broadband to New York’s Projects

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

November 4, 201621m 21s

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Show Notes

The second week of August isn’t ordinarily a time given over to novelty and ambition in New York. The air is a jellied vapor of sweat and refuse, and anybody who can afford to be elsewhere is. But the vast Queensbridge housing complex was an unlikely scene of neon-vested hustle. The six-story brown-brick apartment blocks along 41st Avenue had been encased in green scaffolding and draped with long, heavy bolts of cream burlap, which gave the blunt rectilinear forms a veil of anticipation.

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