BLOCK PULSENYC · STREET VITALS
How busy is a block on foot, hour by hour — a vision model counts the pedestrians on the city's own cameras. Vehicles don't count.
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▮▮ SCORING PAUSED
AI foot-traffic scoring is frozen at the snapshot below (—). The hourly capture was switched off to avoid ongoing API cost, so the scores and the rhythm curve no longer update.
The camera feeds are still live — click any dot to see that camera's current frame.
01 Coverage of watched streets
04 Foot traffic by hour
HOURLY MEANCitywide mean foot traffic per hourly capture — a frozen record of roughly two days, ending at the last capture before scoring was paused.
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SAMPLE BIASThese are traffic cameras, not street cameras. They see ~1% of New York City's 6,300 street-miles and ~7% of signals — clustered in Manhattan, which holds 87 of the 99 best. The Bronx & Staten Island are mostly highway and effectively unwatched. Read this as the pulse of the blocks the city happens to watch, not of New York.
The score counts people on foot only — cars, buses and traffic are explicitly excluded.