A Link5G tower installed in Brooklyn. Preservationists in Manhattan on the Upper East Side and Greenwich Village have argued that the 5G towers are needlessly large and visually incompatible with their historic neighborhoods. ( Photo by Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Link5G Redesign a Possibility, Says Chief Technology Officer LinkNYC’s metallic, 32-foot-tall 5G towers have faced no shortage of backlash since they were first announced in 2022—especially... Home 25 Mar 2024 | 04:58
Westbeth Artists Housing, viewed from West Street. ( Photo by AngellosIoannis, via Wikimedia Commons.) LinkNYC Operator Withdraws Westbeth 5G Tower Plans CityBridge, the tech and wireless consortium operating LinkNYC, will withdraw its proposal for installing a LinkNYC 5G tower... News 14 Dec 2023 | 12:28
Advocates say that LinkNYC’s futuristic 32-foot tall 5G towers will disrupt the character of historic districts and buildings. ( Credit: NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications) 32-Foot LinkNYC 5G Towers Get Pushback from Historic Preservation Advocates New Yorkers may have seen a new fixture on their sidewalks as of late. At 32 feet tall, with metal columns and slightly translucent... News 24 Nov 2023 | 07:35
The new LinkNYC 5G towers, shown without an advertising screen in the second image from the left, stand 32 feet tall. Photo via the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation 5G Towers Are Coming To Greenwich Vil and SOHO As many as nine LinkNYC 5G towers — the ones that stand at a whopping 32 feet tall — could eventually crop up in Community... News 20 Jan 2023 | 02:51
