MacDonald Park To Be WiFi Enabled

The New York City Parks Department announced earlier this month that three Queens Parks — including MacDonald Park in Forest Hills — will be outfitted with wireless internet access this summer.

The WiFi access, provided by AT&T, is free for any park patrons to use in conjunction with smartphones, laptops, e-readers and other internet-enabled devices.

“In May, we laid out a strategy to make New York City the nation’s leading digital city, and AT&T’s generous initiative to bring Wi-Fi to 20 City parks will help us get there,” Bloomberg said when the plan was annoucned. “New York City has the greatest network of public parks in the world, and we’ve invested heavily to expand and enhance them.”

MacDonald Park will join Astoria Park and Flushing Meadow Park as the three Queens parks with wireless access.

In addition to the Queens parks, wireless internet access will be offered in parks in the other four boroughs, as well.

“Park visitors will now have more options to surf the net while enjoying the great outdoors of New York City’s open spaces,” said Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe.

MacDonald Park has been the site of a great deal of city activity of late. Since it was decimated by a storm in September, it has been the site of , and more recently,

The NYPD's Night Out Against Crime will take place in the park in August.