Times Square: 1515 Broadway View Live

This live view is trained on the McDonald's billboard at 1515 Broadway, right in Times Square, New York. The frame is filled with the glow the area is known for: towering signs, shifting advertisements, and a constant movement of people along the sidewalks below.

Times Square is a place that rarely holds still. In daylight you notice the scale of the signs, the weather moving through Midtown, and the patterns of the crowd as it thickens and thins. After dark the lights take over, and the same stretch of Broadway becomes a theater of color. A few minutes on the stream is often enough to see the billboards change, a new cluster of visitors pause for a photograph, or the whole scene briefly open up between waves of pedestrians.

It is a simple, direct window on New York at this very moment, equally good as a background companion and as a scene you sit down to watch on purpose.

The stream is provided by AE Signage. Come back at noon and again at midnight; this corner of Times Square almost never looks the same twice.