That Brooklyn Bagel has wifi, but that doesn't make it a coworking space. (Photo: flickr.com/edastrauch)

The latest neighborhood trying to make a coworking space happen? It's the former home of Archie Bunker, i.e. Astoria. The Daily News reports that three locals are shopping around for a space.

Maybe they can cut a deal with the beer garden?

At the moment, Astoria is a little lacking in public spaces for laptop luggers. There's Astor Bake Shop, a couple of Starbucks outposts, and the ironically named Brooklyn Bagel, but there's really nowhere to squat if you prefer to work away from caloric temptation. 

“You can only go to a Starbucks so many days a week before you get sick of it,” said one of the organizers, Nelson Ramirez, 28, who works at home as a software developer. “The demographics here would support the idea.”

Ray Craycraft, the founder of popular community forum Why Leave Astoria--who previously considered starting something similar--sounds a little skeptical. He told the News that while Astoria has plenty of "really creative people in Astoria with big ideas," it's also "very expensive to build something like this from the ground up."

With Long Island City already angling for its own space, what Queens neighborhood is next? We'll keep our fingers crossed for a General Assembly satellite campus in the bucolic environs of Forest Hills Gardens.

In NYC, we got some of the slowest AT&T speeds, and least-reliable AT&T connections, of all the cities we tested. Even little MetroPCS is both faster and more reliable than AT&T in the Big Apple.

But, if you're not under contract, there are other options:

The good news is that you have a bunch of faster choices. New York has always been a Verizon town, and Verizon's new 4G LTE network is the fastest in the city. But we also saw peak speeds on Sprint 4G and T-Mobile topping 8Mbps, and MetroPCS turned in an impressive performance given its very low prices.

Only two spots were tested in Brooklyn and Queens, versus eight in Manhattan, but Astoria won out best overall speeds thanks to "just the right combination of relatively low-rise buildings, but dense population to deliver great wireless signals." Something Nate Silver did not take into account when he ranked it only the 11th most livable neighborhood in New York.