Mayor Bloomberg Announces Google's Plan To Provide Free Wifi To Chelsea Neighborhood

NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 08: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (left), U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer for Google, (right), cut ethernet cables at a news event where it was announced that free Wi-Fi will be provided to the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea on January 8, 2013 in New York City. Google has teamed up with the Chelsea Improvement Project, a local New York City non-profit and the city government to provide free Wi-Fi to the historic neighborhood. The network will become the largest public outdoor service of its kind in New York, and the first neighborhood in the city with free WiFi. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)