Webcams at Manhattan Cruise Terminal

The Harbor House Bed & Breakfast on Staten Island, looking north across the Upper Bay at the Lower Manhattan skyline, with the Verrazzano Narrows in the same frame.

Harbor traffic in HD around the clock. PTZtv says the feed covers cruise ship departures from the Manhattan, Brooklyn and Cape Liberty terminals, and names Carnival, Norwegian, Holland America and Cunard among the ships that come through.

This is a harbor camera, not a pier camera: it cannot show you a ship tied up at Pier 88 or Pier 90. What it can show you is that ship half an hour later, down the Hudson and out across the Upper Bay on its way to the Narrows. Read the departure time above and watch then, rather than leaving it open all afternoon. PTZtv has announced a second New York camera — at Mastro's on the Hudson in Weehawken, aimed straight at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal — as "coming Winter 2026". It was not live when we checked, so it is not listed here.

The same PTZtv harbor camera, played back rather than live.

Recent captures from PTZtv's cameras under a New York heading, browsable by the last hour, last two hours and last three hours — which is the right tool when a ship crossed the bay while nobody was watching.