New York CCTV Game camera guide
Times Square (7th Ave & W 46th St) · United States
Times Square camera mounted high — wide field of view captures both traffic and pedestrians.
Average vehicle count per hour — New York
Local time (EST/EDT)Mean across our 30-day round log (March 2026, n ≈ 1,700 rounds per camera). Higher bars = busier hours.
- 08:00-09:30avg 73 · peak
- 17:00-19:00avg 72 · peak
- 22:00-00:00avg 41 · high
- 03:00-05:00avg 13 · low
Range (40-55) during 22:00-23:30 — theatre let-out is statistically narrow
What we noticed at this camera
Times Square never fully empties. The 03:00-05:00 trough is shallower than London or Sydney. Special events (New Year, Macy's parade days) make this camera essentially un-bettable — counts go feral.
Weather impact
NYC snow days drop counts 30-40%. Heat waves above 32°C reduce daytime foot-traffic 15%.
Betting strategy for the New York
New York camera is one of six in 155.io's rotation, but it doesn't behave like the others. The mean count over our 30-day log was different from the system's displayed thresholds in measurable ways during peak windows — that's where the value lives, if there is value at all.
Plan A: only bet during the city's peak window. The system displays a threshold based on a rolling average that includes all hours, so peak-hour rounds tend to overshoot the line by 4–7 vehicles. Over bets are favored in that window — across our sample, Over hit rates were 53–55%.
Plan B: if you don't want to time-watch, treat this camera the way you treat a fair coin and keep stakes small. Over/Under at this feed paid roughly even money over our sample — fine for entertainment, awful for ROI.
Plan C — the high-variance route: Exact Count bets pay 18× and would need to hit roughly once per 22 bets to break even. Our log suggests the natural hit rate is closer to 1 in 73 for any single integer near the median — so this is a sucker bet for most rounds, but mathematically less awful if you bet the median count rather than guessing.
Whatever plan you pick, set a session budget before you open the lobby, and remember the round cadence: you can fire 60+ rounds an hour at this camera. Stake size discipline matters more than picking the "right" bet type.