About the NYC Live Command Center

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The NYC Live Command Center gathers New York City's public traffic cameras onto a single screen: more than 900 live NYC DOT feeds spanning all five boroughs, each refreshing every two seconds. It is the world's only site that brings every live NYC traffic camera together in one place with this much viewing control. It is free to use, and it needs no account.

What you can do

You can move between a grid of cameras and a full interactive map, narrow the view to a single borough or neighborhood, and search for any street by name. You decide how dense the grid is by setting the number of columns, and you can save the cameras you return to most often as favorites. Three themes are available — light, dark, and a high-contrast hacker theme. Alongside the feeds, the dashboard shows current weather, transit status, and live incident data, so the picture of the city stays in one place.

Where the feeds come from

Every camera image is drawn from NYC DOT's public traffic-camera network — the same source that powers 511NY. These are public feeds published by the city, and they are shown here as they are provided. Because the feeds come from a third party, availability can change without notice, and the dashboard is intended for general information rather than for navigation or emergency decisions.

Cameras and neighborhoods you can watch

Coverage spans the crossings that define the city's traffic: bridges such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the Holland and Lincoln tunnel approaches, and highways including the FDR Drive and the BQE. It also reaches the landmarks people watch for their own sake, from Times Square to Central Park.

You can also browse borough by borough — Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island — or work through all of our NYC camera guides.