A digital map of Red Hook Brooklyn with markings in relation to the locations and components involved in the wireless mesh network called the Red Hook Wifi project. Beginning in the lower-left, near the Red Hook channel, a drop-pin in green is labelled 'Brooklyn Fiber Internet.' From this green point, there is a slanting purple line that ends on Visitation Place and Richard Street. This line is labelled 'Brooklyn Fiber Church Link.' The end point is labelled 'Brooklyn Fiber Church Node' in green. Several markings in pink surrounding Coffey Park are labelled as the following: 'Church to Coffey Park Node', 'Coffey Park Node', and 'Coffey Park Node to Auto Body Shop'. A portion of Coffey park is highlighted and is labelled 'WIFI Coverage for Residents' in purple. Between Huntington and 9th street, there is a house symbol labelled 'Red Hook Initiative (RHI)' in yellow. Surrounding this area are labels marked in pink (RHI Rooftop Node, Auto Body Shop Node to Coffey Park, Node inside RHI) and green (FEMA Satellite Internet).

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Red Hook WIFI

This is a Project. It was designed by Red Hook Initiative. It is dated 2010–present.

Red Hook WIFI is a community-led effort designed to close the digital divide, generate economic opportunity, ease access to essential services, and improve quality of life for the more than 11,000 residents of this underserved neighborhood. Red Hook Initiative deployed a wireless mesh network, which proved to be a resilient infrastructure during a natural disaster. Installed, maintained, and promoted by Digital Stewards, young adults from the community, the network became the primary communication stream for residents when the Internet failed after Superstorm Sandy hit the area.

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Accession Number USA.045
Object ID 420777987