How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras

For the first clip successful 53 years, New York Knicks fans volition beryllium celebrating the team’s NBA title triumph with a parade done little Manhattan. Many New Yorkers volition beryllium showing up to enactment successful idiosyncratic connected Thursday morning, but not everyone volition beryllium capable to marque it to the event. For those who are celebrating from afar (or begrudgingly stuck astatine the bureau portion the procession takes place), creator Morry Kolman has an enactment for you: watching via respective postulation cameras on the parade way and surrounding City Hall, wherever the parade volition end.

Kolman is livestreaming the camera feeds arsenic portion of his project, GardenCam, which has been streaming and archiving postulation camera footage of thoroughfare revelers passim the Knicks’ historical finals tally against the San Antonio Spurs.

A autochthonal New Yorker, Kolman and his friends person suffered done galore seasons of calamity and loss. After an ecstatic crippled 2 win, Kolman felt similar helium wanted to bash thing to seizure the “bigger vigor rippling done the city,” helium tells WIRED. After polling friends for ideas, a “handsome lawyer friend” suggested that helium commencement pulling postulation camera footage from astir Madison Square Garden, wherever fans had been gathering to ticker the game.

Kolman, who describes his creator signifier arsenic “high-effort shitposting,” says helium was funny successful however galore radical were posting videos of themselves and others watching the games extracurricular of MSG, and wanted to springiness fans different space to seizure the acquisition from.

His archetypal crippled 3 sum took a darker crook than helium expected. Not lone did the Knicks look a devastating loss, but President Donald Trump’s attendance meant that the postulation cameras abruptly became a mode to witnesser the accrued surveillance astir the Garden.

“Instead of showing disconnected each the celebrations happening astir MSG, it was really a mode to ticker the unrecorded imposition of a perimeter and constabulary authorities astir midtown,” says Kolman.

GardenCam is simply a successor of Kolman’s 2024 creation piece, Traffic Cam Photobooth, which tapped into NYC’s immense surveillance web of postulation cameras to fto radical instrumentality selfies. The portion garnered a cease-and-desist missive from the New York City Department of Transportation. At the time, the NYC DOT argued that the task “encourages and promotes the unauthorized usage of New York City (NYC) postulation cameras” and that radical taking photos of themselves successful the mediate of the roadworthy was “inherently unsafe.”

Kolman was directed to “remove and disable each portions” of the Photobooth website that related to NYC postulation cameras, and region each URLs to city-owned webpages, including immoderate links captioned “camera map.” In response, helium took a photograph of the missive with a postulation camera and aboriginal exhibited the task astatine Art Basel successful Miami.

A NYC DOT spokesperson tells WIRED successful an email that the bureau “has nary objection to the GardenCam project” but did not elaborate further. Several streets and subway stations volition beryllium closed for the parade, and bikes and scooters volition beryllium prohibited, possibly mitigating concerns astir pedestrian safety.

Kolman says of the agency’s stance, “I deliberation they've learned to fto maine person my fun, and I deliberation that's a bully decision.”