The category we chose
Built for the buildings the big rollouts skip.
Prewar walk-ups. Brownstones and townhouses. Small apartment buildings. The mixed-use corner with homes upstairs and a storefront below. ConnectNYC is the internet provider built around the small New York building that conventional rollouts treat as an exception — and one household is enough to start the building check.
Live today on the Upper West Side, W 57th–110th St, Central Park West to the Hudson — and growing building by building. Outside the zone, send the building for a feasibility review.
Find your building
Same idea, building by building.
Every request starts the same way: a person checks the building and replies in writing. If a survey makes sense, the next step is site-specific. Choose the building type closest to yours.
Walk-ups
A walk-up may have an existing riser or coax path a roof-first design can use. The building check tells us whether yours does.
Internet for walk-ups →Townhouses & brownstones
If the house checks out, it gets a dedicated roof run. The plans are the same as an apartment’s; installation is $999 once.
Townhouse & brownstone →Mixed-use buildings
One rooftop evaluation can assess both the apartments and the storefront, with residential and business service proposed separately.
Mixed-use internet →Small apartment buildings
Owners and managers get the survey-first path: feasibility, a written proposal, and a published sample license before anything is signed.
The owner process →How rollout math works
Small buildings can lose the rollout math before anyone checks the roof.
Large network builds weigh the apartments behind a front door against the cost of reaching them. That is industry economics, not proof of what happened at your address. Our building check starts with the building itself.
The unit-count math
Street work, permitting, and building entry include costs that do not shrink in step with unit count. Spread them across six apartments instead of six hundred and the payback can be harder. That is the category logic — not a diagnosis of your address.
The building path
Some prewar buildings have no dedicated telecom room or spare conduit. A street-first design has to solve that path before it reaches an apartment; our survey checks whether a roof-first path is feasible.
The repeatability problem
Large rollouts favor building paths they can repeat. A smaller building with a different entry path can keep losing priority even when another design may work. Only the carrier can explain a specific address.
How roof-first flips it
We start where small buildings are strong: the roof.
A compact rooftop node, then a weatherproof cable path through the building’s usable route: a riser, existing coax, or another agreed path. No street trench. The no-cost survey determines that route; the published sample license puts term, power, insurance, removal, and restoration in writing.
For residents
One apartment is enough to start. We handle the building conversation as ConnectNYC — and we don’t use your name in that conversation unless you opt in. Plans start at $89/mo, taxes included.
For owners and managers
A survey first, a written proposal second. No cost to the building, a non-exclusive license, and one management-use connection per the sample license. See the building process.
For the network-curious
Fixed wireless brings the signal to the roof; company-owned IP space and leased dark-fiber transport carry it beyond the building. The network design is public.
One address is enough to ask.
Nothing is charged when you send the building-check request. A person checks the exact building, then replies by email with the result.
Own or manage a building? See the building process. Outside the UWS? Send the building for a review.