How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Cameras

For the first one For 53 years, New York Knicks fans have been celebrating the NBA team’s victories and victories in lower Manhattan. Many New Yorkers will be visiting in person Thursday morning, but not everyone will be able to make it to the event. For those who celebrate from a distance (or reluctantly stuck in the office while the party is happening), photographer Morry Kolman has an option: watching through several street cameras on the street and near City Hall, where it ends.

Kolman shows camera feeds as part of his project, GardenCamwhich has been streaming and keeping the cameras of the revelers in the street throughout the Knicks final against the San Antonio Spurs.

A native New Yorker, Kolman and his friends have endured many seasons of misfortune and loss. After the exciting Game 2 win, Kolman felt like he wanted to do something to capture the “great energy that’s going on in the city,” he told WIRED. After recruiting friends for ideas, a “handsome lawyer friend” told him to start taking pictures of the traffic cameras around him. Madison Square Gardenwhere fans had gathered to watch the game.

Kolman, who describes his art as “very fast delivery,” says he was interested in the number of people who were posting videos of themselves and others watching the game outside of MSG, and wanted to give fans another way to capture the experience.

His first 3 games turned out to be more than expected. Not only did the Knicks suffer a devastating loss, but the presence of President Donald Trump meant that traffic cameras suddenly became a way to monitor the amount of surveillance around the Garden.

“Instead of showing all the festivities going on around MSG, it was a way to watch people go around and the police around the city,” says Kolman.

GardenCam is the successor to Kolman’s 2024 artwork, Traffic Cam Photobooththat went into a huge array of NYC street cameras for the public to record. The district got a a cease-and-desist letter from the New York City Department of Transportation. At the time, the NYC DOT said the project “encourages and encourages the illegal use of street cameras in New York City (NYC)” and that people taking selfies on the street were “unsafe.”

Kolman was instructed to “remove and suspend all portions” of Photobooth’s website related to NYC traffic cameras, and to remove all URLs from the city’s website, including any links labeled “camera map.” In response, he took a a picture of the letter and automotive camera and later exhibited this work at Art Basel in Miami.

A spokesperson for the NYC DOT told WIRED in an email that the agency is “not opposed to the GardenCam project” but did not elaborate. Several streets and subway stations will be closed for the parade, and bicycles and scooters will be banned, possibly alleviating concerns about pedestrian safety.

Kolman said of the board’s stance: “I think they’ve learned to let me have fun, and I think it’s a good decision to make.”