Citizens of New York City will no longer have to awkwardly go into a carrier store and ask to use their chargers and outlets. Thanks to Goal Zero, AT&T and Brooklyn design studio Pensa, NYC is getting several free solar-powered charging stations across the city.
Not only will the Street Charge stations give your cellphone necessary juice, they also have the potential to provide Wi-Fi and lighting. So as you wait for your phone to fully charge — which will take the same amount of time as using a regular outlet, according to Street Charge — you won’t have to wait in the dark.
Street Charge makes its debut today at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. The rest of the 25 stations will be deployed across the city this summer in highly visited areas, including the Brooklyn Bridge Park, Coney Island, Riverside Park, Rockaways, Summerstage in Central Park, Randall’s Island, Governor’s Island, Union Square, and Hudson River Park.
As for the rest of us outside of the Big Apple, we’ll just have to settle for hefty battery packs or dead phones for now.
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