Waterfront Museum Harbor Cam, Red Hook

A Front-Row Seat on New York Harbor

From its homeport berth in Red Hook, Brooklyn, this live webcam looks out across Upper New York Bay, capturing the constant maritime traffic of one of the world's busiest harbors. Tugs, barges, container ships, and pleasure craft trace the Red Hook Channel between the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and the Buttermilk Channel.

The Historic Waterfront Museum

The camera is hosted by the Waterfront Museum, a beloved floating museum aboard the century-old Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No. 79. Its pier offers a panoramic vantage over the bay, with a railed overlook reaching out toward the water.

A Living Maritime Landscape

Across the bay, the distant shorelines of Staten Island and New Jersey frame the horizon, while channel buoys mark the shipping lanes. It is a quintessential view of New York's working waterfront, alive with vessels of every kind.