1.   Cypress wires office buildings, then sells communications services such as high-speed Internet access back to midsize companies that are tenants.

2.   Digital NYC strives to bring cyberbusinesses to Harlem and the boroughs outside Manhattan, while another program sponsors specially wired buildings in lower Manhattan.

3.   It has taken MCI WorldCom three years and dozens of bruising battles with regulators and building owners to wire two buildings.

4.   Musa, with a small black beard and steely eyes, is an electrician who wires buildings by day and Hezbollah bombs at night.

5.   The building is wired to the max and has its own Internet server.

6.   Wiring old school buildings is prohibitively expensive in most districts, he said.

7.   The building is now wired for Internet access, barely an option when the project was first launched.

8.   The building is wired for business, promotors said.