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New Year's Eve in Times Square 2026 — Live Cameras
The next edition is Thursday, December 31, 2026 — 65 days out. Watch Midtown, the West Side and the crossings into Manhattan as the city counts down. Free, no signup.
Times Square on December 31 is the world's best-known street party: a million people in the pens along Broadway and Seventh Avenue, the ball on its pole above One Times Square, and a minute to midnight that the whole planet watches. The cameras on this page are New York's own — the public street and traffic feeds that watch Midtown every day of the year, gathered here for the one night they were unknowingly built for.
The honest framing, as on every event page here: no public camera in the directory looks into the Square itself, so the drop is the broadcast's view, not this page's. What these cameras show instead is the city around the celebration — the West Side Highway corridor and the Midtown avenues in the first wall, the bridges and tunnels in the second, and the whole 10 km field in the third. It is New Year's Eve at street level: the build-up, the closures, the surge at midnight and the great exodus after.
Start in the early evening with the Midtown wall as the pens fill, keep the crossings open if you are driving in (Midtown closes to traffic early and completely), and after midnight watch the getaway — the bridges and tunnels draining a million people out of a few city blocks is a show of its own.
Around the Square — Midtown & the West Side
Every public camera in the directory within 5 km of Times Square, nearest first. The coverage leans west — the West Side Highway and Henry Hudson Parkway corridors and the avenues feeding them — because that is where New York points its public cameras. Nothing here is inside the Square; these are the streets the celebration spills across.
Getting there — bridges & tunnels
The public cameras within 2 km of the six crossings most of the city uses on New Year's Eve — the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, and the Queensboro, Brooklyn and Williamsburg Bridges. Check them before you leave, and again after midnight for the trip home.
The whole field — 10 km of New York
Every public camera within 10 km of Times Square: Midtown and the West Side, the East River crossings, the parkways up and down Manhattan. The fullest picture of the city's biggest night, at the scale the night actually happens.
The three views — camera counts
| Area | Cameras |
|---|---|
| Around the Square (within 5 km) | 11 |
| Bridges & tunnels (six crossings, 2 km each) | 24 |
| The whole field (within 10 km) | 83 |
Counts are public cameras in the WorldEye directory per selection; the walls overlap, and the page total counts each camera once.
How to watch New Year's Eve on the cameras
- 1Early evening: open the Midtown wall and watch the avenues around the theatre district fill as the pens close and the programme starts.
- 2Around 6 pm Eastern the ball is raised over One Times Square — the broadcast moment, but the street cameras show the crowd reaction spreading down the avenues.
- 3Driving in or out? The crossings wall is the practical one: check the bridges and tunnels before you commit to a route.
- 4At midnight, keep the Midtown wall open — the surge, the confetti weather and the first movement of a million people is the street-level version of the drop.
- 5After midnight, the crossings tell the rest of the story: the getaway, live.
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