LIVE CAMERA NETWORK
Times Square & Midtown Manhattan — Live Cameras
The live street cameras around Times Square and Midtown Manhattan — the front row when the ball drops.
Off-season — New Year's Eve at Times Square· returns December 30, 2026
The ball drops on December 31 — outside that week, these cameras stream Midtown Manhattan around the clock, and this wall becomes the front row again when the countdown returns.
Times Square is the most-watched street corner on Earth for exactly one night a year — and a working piece of Midtown Manhattan for the other 364. This wall gathers the live cameras closest to the Square in the WorldEye network: New York State DOT street cameras on the avenues around Midtown, streaming live video around the clock.
On New Year's Eve the streets in these frames fill from the afternoon onward, and the cameras watch the neighbourhood the celebration takes over — the approach avenues, the West Side, the tunnel traffic pouring into Midtown. The rest of the year they are simply the city's pulse: theatre-district traffic, Hudson Yards, the climb up the West Side Highway.
The cameras — Midtown Manhattan, New York City
West St at W. 42nd St — the closest catalogue camera to Times Square, about 1.4 km west
West St at W. 34th St, Hudson Yards — about 1.6 km from the Square
West St at W. 57th St — the climb toward Columbus Circle
West St at W. 23rd St, Chelsea
Henry Hudson Pkwy at W. 66th St, Upper West Side
West St at W. 14th St, Meatpacking District
I-495 at the Queens Midtown Tunnel — traffic pouring into Midtown
Every card is a still poster until you open it — browsing this wall never starts a stream. Opening a camera works exactly as it does everywhere on WorldEye, under the same free viewing allowance.
About these cameras
An honest note on the picks: the catalogue carries no camera mounted inside Times Square itself. These are the records whose published coordinates fall closest to the Square — the nearest, West Street at W. 42nd Street, is roughly 1.4 km west of it — every one a New York City street camera placed there by the catalogue's own city and coordinate data. Nothing here is a stock photo or a renamed feed from somewhere else.