Let’s Face It: You’ll Find Your NYC Apartment Faster If You’re WIRED!

If you’ve been playing the blood sport that is NYC real estate for more than a nanosecond, you’ve probably already learned—the painful way—that the most indispensable piece of protective equipment you’ll need to stay upright in the field is a big, steel-reinforced cup. But once you’ve got that essential bit of armor strapped snugly over your tender emotions, you can calibrate your priorities to those of many professional athletes and make your highest priority staying wired all the time!

Traditionally, cafés with free Wi-Fi were the popular destinations for top Brooklyn condo and SoHo loft draft picks out to sate their voracious appetites for both caffeine and internet access. Recently, however—perhaps in response to the public's increasing disgust with performance enhancing drugs in general, or wait staff’s increasing exasperation with the dwindling tips due to slow table turn-over by the laptop set—cafés offering free internet access are increasingly restricting the hours during which you can troll your broker’s site for apartments.

That said, as one might imagine, staying wired in most NYC neighborhoods is easy—if you know where to go... Cafés may be changing their ways, but many bars are all too happy to pick up the slack and to be your home hunting “hot spot.” Lolita on the Lower East Side is comfortable and quiet during the late afternoons and even has coffee so that you won’t have to alter your performance enhancing drug regimen too drastically. Eater.com recently published this map of bars that offer free Wi-Fi and they are updating it as per readers’ nominations of deserving places to add.