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Times Square pedestrian density

person count/density in fixed frame of Times Square public plaza webcam

Feed detail
Measures
person count/density in fixed frame of Times Square public plaza webcam
Source
EarthCam Times Square live cam (earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare)
Access
cv-webcam
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Midtown Manhattan foot traffic is a coincident indicator of office-worker/tourist return-to-normalcy, feeding NYC retail and transit demand ahead of MTA ridership releases
Maps to
NYC retail REITs, Broadway/tourism spend, MTA ridership correlate
Crowdedness
commodity
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:low
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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