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Free Wi-Fi in Brooklyn

Your essential guide to the best places in the city to get online without spending a cent—from cafes to cultural institutions and stores

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Workspaces

Shelby White & Leon Levy Information Commons

Shelby White & Leon Levy Information Commons
Shelby White & Leon Levy Information Commons
Photograph: Courtesy Philip Greenberg
Located inside the Central Brooklyn Public Library, the Info Commons houses a free workspace with room (and outlets) for more than 70 laptop users, along with 25 available desktop computers.

Museums and cultural institutions

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

  • Attractions
  • Historic buildings and sites
  • Boerum Hill
  • Recommended
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

BAM installed a privately sponsored free Wi-Fi network in 2013 that not only works inside the historic Fort Greene building that houses it, but extends over a mile along Fulton Street nearby.  Woohoo!

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Brooklyn Museum

  • Museums
  • Natural history
  • Prospect Park
  • price 2 of 4
  • Recommended
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum
The grand Brooklyn institution has Wi-Fi available throughout the museum and immediate outdoor vicinity.
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Brooklyn Public Library

With several locations throughout Brooklyn, you can finally find some peace and quiet in these literary halls.

Parks

Prospect Park

  • Attractions
  • Parks and gardens
  • Prospect Park
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Prospect Park
Prospect Park
The Wi-Fi here works in the vicinity of the Picnic House, on the west side of the park at about 6th Street. There’s also another network available around the Bandshell, but it allows for only limited browsing before you have to pay.
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McCarren Park

  • Attractions
  • Parks and gardens
  • Greenpoint
McCarren Park
McCarren Park
This hipster-magnet green space has a free Wi-Fi  hotspot at the Field House between Driggs and Bedford Avenues.
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Hotels

McCarren Hotel

  • Hotels
  • Boutique hotels
  • Williamsburg
  • price 3 of 4
  • Recommended
McCarren Hotel
McCarren Hotel
Easy access to the pool isn’t the only perk that McCarren Hotel offers—the complimentary web browsing is nice, too. 
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Nu Hotel

  • Hotels
  • Boutique hotels
  • Boerum Hill
  • price 2 of 4
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Nu Hotel
Nu Hotel
A centrally located, sustainability conscious hotel, the Nu Hotel lets you access the building-wide Wi-Fi from a small seating area in the lobby.
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Stores

Rough Trade NYC

  • Shopping
  • Williamsburg
Rough Trade NYC
Rough Trade NYC
Photograph: Jennifer Arnow
Rough Trade didn’t just bring its British sensibilities, a vast record selection, and a frequently booked in-store venue to Williamsburg when it opened in 2013—it brought free Wi-Fi too.
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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble
All NYC Barnes & Noble locations offer free Wi-Fi access, and most have café areas where you can sit, snack, plug in, and get online.

Restaurants and cafes

Roots Cafe

  • Coffee shops
  • South Slope
Roots Cafe
Roots Cafe

This South Slope coffee joint operates with a dose of Southern hospitality, so head on in, order some grits, and connect to the Wi-Fi.

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Steeplechase Coffee

Steeplechase Coffee
Steeplechase Coffee
Photograph: Courtesy Creative Commons/Flickr/Premshree Pillai
Steeplechase is a well-known entity among neighborhood freelancers thanks partly to its friendly vibe and solid menu, but mostly because of the numerous plugs and free internet.
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Black Brick

Black Brick
Black Brick
Photograph: Courtesy Creative Commons/Flickr/Anne Helmond
There’s plenty of seating here among the recycled wood décor, including a no-laptop zone for coffee drinkers who didn’t come in to use the Wi-Fi. Don’t worry, freelancers and web browsers are still more than welcome.

Gimme! Coffee

  • Coffee shops
  • Nolita
  • price 1 of 4
Gimme! Coffee
Gimme! Coffee
Gimme! Coffee? More like Gimme! Free Wi-Fi, right? Fortunately, you can have both at either of this environmentally-friendly shop’s two Williamsburg locations.
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Blue Marble Ice Cream

  • Boerum Hill
Blue Marble Ice Cream
Blue Marble Ice Cream
If you visit one of Blue Marble’s two Brooklyn locations to use the free Wi-Fi, just try to avoid dripping any of your delicious organic ice cream on your computer. You don’t want to waste any of that creamy goodness! Or, ah, ruin your laptop.
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