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NYC Marathon 2026 — Live Cameras Along the Course
Sunday, November 1, 2026: the world's largest marathon takes over all five boroughs. Watch its streets live — free, no signup.
On Sunday, November 1, 2026, New York hands its streets to the marathon: more than 50,000 runners and a million-plus spectators, from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge at dawn to the Central Park finish in the afternoon. WorldEye's directory maps the city's public cameras along the whole route — the same NYSDOT, 511NY and city street feeds that watch these avenues every other day of the year, arranged here in race order so you can follow the day borough by borough.
An honest framing before the walls: these are street and traffic cameras near the course, not the race's broadcast feeds. They will not track the leaders. What they show is the marathon as the city experiences it — avenues emptied and closed, bridges carrying a river of runners instead of cars, crowd walls on Fourth Avenue, and the long human stream still pouring through the Bronx and down Fifth Avenue hours after the winners finish. On race day that is a spectacle in its own right, and it is live.
The selection below is geographic, not editorial: every public camera in the directory within 2.5 km of the course line, grouped by the borough it stands in — 74 cameras in all, with another 185 within 15 km of Central Park alone. Open any card to watch that street live.
Staten Island — the start
The race begins at Fort Wadsworth, in the shadow of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The cameras here watch the bridge approaches and the Staten Island shore as tens of thousands of runners stage at dawn and pour onto the span — the widest start in marathon running.
1.1 km from the course
1.9 km from the course
2.4 km from the course
0.6 km from the course
0.5 km from the course
0.5 km from the course
0.3 km from the course
Brooklyn — Fourth Avenue and downtown
Off the bridge into Bay Ridge, then straight up Fourth Avenue through Sunset Park and Park Slope before the course turns through downtown Brooklyn and toward Williamsburg. Brooklyn holds the race's loudest street miles, and it is the densest camera stretch of the five boroughs.
0.0 km from the course
0.8 km from the course
0.8 km from the course
0.6 km from the course
2.2 km from the course
2.0 km from the course
0.5 km from the course
1.1 km from the course
0.6 km from the course
0.4 km from the course
0.3 km from the course
0.6 km from the course
Queens — Long Island City
The Pulaski Bridge drops the field into Long Island City at the halfway point, and the Queensboro Bridge carries it into Manhattan. The cameras here face the East River crossings and the LIC streets the course threads on its way to the bridge.
0.2 km from the course
0.3 km from the course
0.3 km from the course
0.3 km from the course
0.5 km from the course
0.9 km from the course
1.2 km from the course
1.6 km from the course
1.8 km from the course
0.6 km from the course
0.1 km from the course
1.8 km from the course
The Bronx — the short, loud loop
The Bronx gets barely a mile and a half of the race — up First Avenue, across the Willis Avenue Bridge, along 138th Street and back over the Madison Avenue Bridge — but it is one of the course's great crowd scenes, and the bridge cameras catch the field at both crossings.
0.1 km from the course
0.4 km from the course
1.2 km from the course
0.5 km from the course
0.4 km from the course
2.0 km from the course
1.9 km from the course
0.3 km from the course
2.2 km from the course
2.1 km from the course
1.6 km from the course
1.7 km from the course
Manhattan — Fifth Avenue and the Central Park finish
Down Fifth Avenue through Harlem, along the park's edge, and into Central Park for the finish near West 67th Street. Manhattan's park-side finish is, honestly, the thinnest stretch for public cameras — the park itself has few public feeds — so the finish-area wall is the smallest of the five.
1.8 km from the course
1.8 km from the course
1.6 km from the course
1.9 km from the course
Cameras along the course — by borough
| Area | Cameras |
|---|---|
| Staten Island | 7 |
| Brooklyn | 24 |
| Queens | 20 |
| The Bronx | 19 |
| Manhattan | 4 |
Counts are public cameras within 2.5 km of the course line in the WorldEye directory, each counted once in its nearest borough. Race-day road closures apply across all five boroughs.
How to follow race day on the cameras
- 1Start before the start: open the Staten Island wall in the morning to watch the Verrazzano approaches fill and the field stage at Fort Wadsworth.
- 2Work down the page in race order — Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue cameras catch the densest early crowds, the Queens bridge cameras the halfway crossings.
- 3Use the Bronx wall for the bridge crossings at Willis Avenue and Madison Avenue, where the field is at its most compressed.
- 4Finish in Manhattan: the Fifth Avenue and park-edge cameras follow the stream into Central Park, still flowing hours after the winners.
- 5Driving instead? The same cameras show which avenues and approaches the closures have shut — check before you set out.