Union Square sits at the intersection of Broadway and Fourth Avenue at 14th Street, and the NYCDOT camera at Union Square at 14th Street covers one of the most consistently active public spaces in Manhattan. Surrounded by transit, retail, a year-round greenmarket, and the kind of open public space that draws everything from political demonstrations to chess games, Union Square generates camera activity that reflects the whole range of what New York's public life looks like.
ライブで見る
Open the Union Square feed on the NYC Live Command Center , filter by borough, jump between cameras, and check conditions リアルタイムで.
ライブカメラを見るThe Camera's Position
ユニオン スクエア @ 14 ストリートのカメラは広場の北端に位置し、メイン広場と 14 番ストリートの交差点に向かって南を向いています。この景色は、4 番街と交わるブロードウェイと周囲の商業地区をカバーしています。この交差点を東から入っているアービング プレイスも、この角度から見ることができます。
The southern portion of the square, where the farmers market operates, is in the frame on market days. The monuments in the square , the equestrian statue of George Washington, the Abraham Lincoln statue, the Mahatma Gandhi statue, and the Marquis de Lafayette , are in the middle distance when the camera view is clear.
ユニオン スクエア グリーンマーケット
ユニオン スクエア グリーンマーケットは、米国で最も人が集まる屋外マーケットの 1 つで、年間を通じて月曜日、水曜日、金曜日、土曜日に開催されます。市場開催日のカメラ映像には、広場の南端と西端を埋め尽くすテントの配置と、市場が午前 8 時から午後 6 時までの間に生み出す密集した歩行者の往来が映し出されます。
この市場には、地元住民、農産物を購入するレストランのシェフ、観光客などが集まります。春と秋の土曜日の朝は、広場に観光客以外の歩行者の活動が最も集中します。カメラは、非市場日とは対照的に、市場日のリズムを捉えています。群衆密度の違いと移動パターンの変化（人々が継続的に通り過ぎるのではなく、ベンダーのテーブルの周りに立ち止まったり集まったりする）は明らかです。
14 番街の交通密度
Union Square is served by the L, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, and 6 trains , more lines than any other station complex in the city. The exits are distributed across four corners of the 14th Street intersection and along both the east and west sides of the square. During rush hour, multiple exits are discharging passengers simultaneously, and the camera captures the crowd emergence from the sidewalk grates and stairwell exits.
This transit density makes the Union Square camera feeds among the most useful for understanding surface congestion caused by subway volume. When a major subway disruption affects multiple lines — the L, which runs through Union Square to Brooklyn, is particularly prone to weekend service changes — the camera shows the impact at street level before transit apps report what's happening.
デモと集会
Union Square has a long history as a site for public assembly. The park's design includes a large, flat central area that can accommodate large crowds, and its location on multiple transit lines makes it logistically accessible for large gatherings. Demonstrations, marches, and public events that begin or end at Union Square are regularly visible on the camera feed.
The camera shows the setup phase , crowd buildup, equipment trucks, police staging , before an event reaches full size. This tends to happen approximately 45-90 minutes before a scheduled event start, and the feed gives a real-time sense of scale before the event is at its peak.
14 番街の交通パターン
The intersection of Broadway and 14th Street is one of Manhattan's busiest surface street crossings. The 14th Street corridor runs east-west across the entire width of Manhattan, and the combined pedestrian and vehicle volume at the Union Square node is among the highest in the city.
M14 バスは 14 番街に沿って運行しており、路線の一部にはバス専用レーンがあります。カメラは一般車両の交通量と比較したバスの流れを表示します。これは、配送車両や駐車違反によってバスレーンがブロックされている期間に特に有益です。
ユニオン スクエアを通るブロードウェイ コリドーは、フラットアイアン地区の北側とダウンタウン Manhattan コリドーの南側の商業ビルにサービスを提供する大量のトラック交通を処理します。これは歩行者の密度と対照的にカメラに映り、非常に混雑した交差点をワイドボディの配送車が通過しています。
夜の広場
After the greenmarket closes and the retail traffic of the afternoon passes, Union Square at night has a different character. The square remains lit and occupied. The skateboarding community uses certain sections of the square's stairs and ledges in the evening. The chess tables on the square's northern edge see action through late evening. Food vendors operate on the surrounding streets.
The camera at night shows the reduction from the daytime crowd to a smaller but still-active population: people cutting through on their way from the subway to nearby restaurants and bars, people sitting on the square's steps, and the occasional performer who uses the space.
*The NYC Live Command Center carries the NYCDOT camera feed at Union Square at 14th Street, one of Manhattan's most active public squares.*