Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan: Where Our NYC Proxies Sit

We get asked to pick a borough. The honest reply takes more than a sentence, so here is the whole thing. Our hardware is in three places: a rack in Brooklyn, a rack in Queens, and a smaller shelf in Manhattan. Each site has its own carrier mix, its own signal story and its own power and uplink arrangements. Knowing this helps you order well, and it also helps you stop worrying about the one thing the borough cannot affect, which is what the IP says to a website.

Brooklyn: the biggest rack, Verizon first

Brooklyn is where most of our lines live. Verizon signal there is consistently strong on the bands our modems use, so the Verizon SIMs on that rack hold long sessions and give the speeds we quote, 4G LTE typically 20 to 45 Mbps and 5G 50 plus Mbps, depending on carrier signal at the device. AT&T is the second carrier on the same rack and performs well, with a little more session movement than Verizon. T-Mobile is present in smaller numbers for customers who ask for it.

The Brooklyn site is also where our Android phone plans sit, because the space allows for the charging and the wired management the phones need. If you order a real-phone line for app testing on a New York network, it is almost certainly in Brooklyn.

Queens: AT&T and Verizon side by side

The Queens rack is our second site and it is where AT&T looks best for us. The cell layout around the site gives AT&T modems a strong, steady connection and the 5G lines there are the ones we tend to recommend when a customer wants AT&T on 5G. Verizon is also strong in Queens, and we keep both carriers stocked so that a move between them is just a dashboard click rather than a hardware change.

Queens is the site we use when Brooklyn is sold out on a carrier. Since every line reads as New York City regardless of site, a customer rarely notices the difference beyond the carrier name on the dashboard.

Manhattan: small, dense, and a different RF story

Manhattan is our smallest site. Dense buildings and the sheer number of phones around it mean the signal picture changes with the hour. Evenings and lunchtime are busier on every carrier, and a line there can show more variation in speed than a line in Brooklyn. We keep it because some customers like to be able to say the device is in Manhattan, and because it gives us a third carrier gateway path for redundancy.

If your job needs the steadiest speed, order Brooklyn or Queens. If you need the device itself to be on the island for your own reasons, say so in a support message and we will put you there if there is stock.

What the borough changes

The borough determines three practical things: which carrier is strongest for your line, how stable the session is over a day, and which physical site we will be in when we swap a SIM or a modem. The borough does not change the plan price, the data allowance, rotation behaviour or support. Every site runs the same software, the same monitoring and the same power protection.

• Changes: carrier strength, session stability, speed consistency
• Does not change: price, rotation, data rules, support, what geolocation reports

What the borough does not change: the IP

This is the part we repeat most. A website looks up your address and gets back New York, New York, on Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile. It does not get Brooklyn. It does not get Queens. It does not get a ZIP code that means anything. The carrier's packet gateway for the whole metro is where your traffic becomes internet traffic, and the geolocation databases map the pool to the city, not the cell tower.

So if a customer tells us they need a Brooklyn IP specifically because a site is checking for Brooklyn, we tell them plainly that no site can do that and that any seller claiming otherwise is selling a label. What you can honestly say is that the hardware is in Brooklyn and the address is a New York City carrier address. That is the truth of it and it is enough for every legitimate job we have seen.

How sites get built and kept running

Each site has a wired business uplink for management and for the control plane that handles rotation and monitoring, separate from the cellular data path your traffic uses. Modems sit on powered USB hubs with per-port power control so a stuck modem can be power-cycled remotely without touching anything else. Phones sit in charging cradles with the battery held at a safe level. Someone from our team is physically in each borough regularly, so a SIM swap or a hardware replacement is a same-day thing rather than a shipped-part thing.

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