---
name: "Damnlines"
subtitle: "Live webcams of the queues outside viral New York food spots"
date: 2026-05-03
link: https://damnlines.com/
source: "Web Curios"
topics: [general-delight, travel]
tags: [nyc, webcam, food]
---

A grid of street-level webcams pointed at the lines outside whichever bagel shop, soft-serve window, or pop-up bakery TikTok decided to ruin this week. Useful as a planning tool ("is the wait at Levain actually two hours right now?") and even better as ambient TV — a quiet meditation on what New Yorkers will, in fact, stand outside in the rain for.