Quoting Leo Mauler [email protected]:
My father tells me that New York has a lot of "ad-hoc" free wireless access points (someone has placed a WAP in their apartment window), as well as some parks which feature free wireless access.
When I was in Manhattan in May, I was able to get onto a handful of open wireless networks from my hotel room on the 14th floor. Every coffee shop we went into advertised wireless access though it was usually for paying T-Mobile customers.
-- Dave Hull http://insipid.com