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Channel 72 on Spectrum Cable in NYC cycles through the NYC DOT traffic cameras with realtime update speed albeit in standard definition.

I tune in and leave it on in the background and it’s like having a window with an interesting view. It’s great ambient TV as noted in this article:

[2012-09-18] The Inadvertent Cinema: City Drive Live | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-inadvert...

The cameras are old, some are black & white, and often they’re over or underexposed with all the interesting video artifacts that entails.

Unlike the webcam access at https://webcams.nyctmc.org/ the cameras update at realtime rates (30 fps) though some are slower.

Sadly, they don’t make the realtime camera cycling available to live stream that I’m aware of. I wish they would for homesick NYers. They don’t even show channel 72 in the Live TV tab of the Spectrum app (perhaps it works when using Spectrum Internet access).