I believe that's one of the LinkNYC kiosks on Smith St. I wasn't aware they were part of this mesh, although the nycmesh site says they've "become unreliable":
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Whenever I go back to curl I feel the same minor aggravation I do when moving from homebrew back to apt (want to install? apt-get. Search? apt-cache search. List? dpkg. Remove? apt-get again, for some reason). It's just not a very user-friendly CLI and I'm constantly pulling up the curl man pages.