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New York City Marathon 2026 — Live Cameras
The next race is Sunday, November 1, 2026 — 4 days out. Follow the course borough by borough on the city's street cameras, from the Verrazzano to Central Park. Free, no signup.
The New York City Marathon is the largest marathon on Earth, and it is run entirely on streets this page watches. Fifty thousand runners cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge out of Staten Island, pour down Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, thread Queens, cross the Queensboro Bridge, brush the Bronx and come home down Fifth Avenue into Central Park — while a million spectators line the route and the city closes itself around the race. The cameras here are New York's own public street and traffic feeds, gathered along the course.
The honest framing, as on every event page here: these are street cameras, not race coverage. They will not track your runner or call the leaders' duel — that is the broadcast's job. What they do is put you on the barrier at five corners of the course at once: watch the start's bridge empty as the waves leave, Fourth Avenue fill into a river of runners by mid-morning, the Queensboro carry the race into Manhattan, and the finish in Central Park run from the elites' sprint to the floodlit last finishers.
On race morning, start with the course wall and move south to north in running order as the leaders progress; by afternoon the finish wall is the story. Any other day of the year, the same walls are the ordinary city — which is its own way of seeing how completely the race takes New York over.
The course — start to finish
Every public camera in the directory within 2 km of the five course anchors, in running order: the Verrazzano start, Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, the Queensboro Bridge, Fifth Avenue and the Central Park finish. The race runs down these streets; the cameras watch them year-round.
The finish — Central Park & the Upper West Side
Every public camera within 5 km of the finish in Central Park: the park's southern end, Columbus Circle and the avenues the finishers and their families pour into afterwards.
The whole field — the five boroughs' course
Every public camera within 15 km of the course's midpoint — race day's full geography, from the Staten Island shore to the Bronx, and the ordinary city flowing around the closed course.
The three views — camera counts
| Area | Cameras |
|---|---|
| The course (five anchors, 2 km each) | 9 |
| The finish (within 5 km of Central Park) | 9 |
| The whole field (within 15 km) | 149 |
Counts are public cameras in the WorldEye directory per selection; the walls overlap, and the page total counts each camera once.
How to follow race day on the cameras
- 1Morning: open the course wall at the start — the Verrazzano fills with the waves and empties as the race leaves Staten Island.
- 2Mid-morning: Fourth Avenue is the spectacle — a solid river of runners the length of Brooklyn.
- 3Late morning: the Queensboro Bridge carries the field into Manhattan; the leaders reach Fifth Avenue and turn for the park.
- 4Afternoon: live on the finish wall — the finish runs for hours, and the light going down over the last finishers is the race's best hour.
- 5Driving in the city on race day? The third wall is the practical one — check which crossings and avenues are flowing before you commit.
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