All 277 underground stations of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will be wired for cellphone use. New York City Transit announced the deal with Transit Wireless, which is spending $46.8 million over 10 years for the permission to install the service. Cell phone providers will have to pay Transit Wireless for their customers to be able to roam onto the subway network.

We have seen the success of London surveillance cameras in their pursuit of terrorists, and we are finally getting smart here as well.

The New York Times reports that NYC will be installing those London-style cameras to keep track of vehicles and pedestrians. This "Lower Manhattan Security Initiative" will start off with 100 cameras, each of which will be able to read license plates and send out alerts if suspect vehicles are detected. Later, 3,000 public and privately-owned cameras will be put into service in 2008.