With my laptop and my cellphone, my office can be wherever I can get online. More places where I can do that that is a Good Thing. And the blog Eater -- which covers dining in New York City -- is seeing a new trend in coffeeshops doing away with their wifi and bars starting to offer it.
It was a serious annoyance the other day when I had to go to three different Starbuckses before I found one that still offered T-Mobile wifi -- which I signed up for at 30 bucks per month purely because of the fact that there are Starbuckses all over Manhattan, which means lots of office space for me. (Starbucks dropped T-Mobile earlier this year, though we were told that T-Mobile service was still going to be available; looks like that's not the case everywhere. Starbucks also now has a limited daily free wifi deal for customers.) I didn't see any bars offering wifi in my roaming around the Times Square area looking for access, but I did come across a couple while I was at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, most of which was actually taking place in the East Village (and not in Tribeca), a hip neighborhood that often generates new trends.
And it was nice to be able to have a glass of wine while I worked. More expensive that a cup of coffee, of course, but nice.
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