Free Outdoor Wi-Fi Comes to Chelsea - NYTimes.com

A phenomenal PR/good will ROI opportunity for Google

"Residents of the Chelsea section of Manhattan who were wondering what Google had done for them lately now have their answer: free Wi-Fi service for the whole neighborhood.
Google, which houses most of its 3,000 New York employees in a massive building on lower Eighth Avenue, has invested about $75,000 to install the broadest wireless network that is open to the public in any neighborhood in the city, elected officials announced Tuesday."

Free Outdoor Wi-Fi Comes to Chelsea - NYTimes.com