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SoldOutRadar · Dataset v2.1 · Data 15 Jun – 23 Sep 2026 (101 days, n = 5,040) · Measured 23 Sep 2026 · Page updated
One run: 101 days, 15 June to 23 September 2026, both piers, reading the official Crown calendar every few minutes and logging each time a sold-out time slot showed spots again. Times in US Eastern. Licence CC BY 4.0.
Sold-out dates that got spots back. For each visit date from 1 July to 23 September 2026 (except 4 July and 10 August, which had no regular Crown sale), we looked at each departure point's calendar at noon, New York time, seven days before the visit. Counting each departure point separately, the calendar showed Sold Out 157 times. In 149 of those cases, spots came back before the visit: 9 dates out of 10. We checked the same way closer to the visit, counting only spots back before the visit day: 126 of 147 cases three days before (more than 8 in 10), and 58 of 152 at noon the day before (more than 1 in 3).
What we mean by a reopening
Definition
A reopening is one Crown time slot that showed 0 bookable spots on one check and 1 or more on the next, counted once until it shows 0 again. We record visit date, pier, and when spots appeared and vanished (US Eastern). The same slot can reopen several times a day; each time counts once. Not counted: slots gaining spots while already open, the July 4 special sale (below), spot-level detail.
Why spots come back. Official Crown tickets are refunded in full if cancelled at least 24 hours before departure; unused tickets are not refunded (Statue City Cruises FAQ, checked 24 Sep 2026). The second mechanism is an unpaid checkout expiring, which puts the same ticket back within about 45 minutes; measured below.
How we collect it
Source. The public Crown Reserve calendar on statuecitycruises.com, the only authorised seller: the pages a visitor sees, no private feed.
Frequency. Every few minutes, around the clock, every bookable date, about five months ahead. A spot taken between two checks is never counted; the true number is higher than ours.
Both piers. Battery Park (New York) and Liberty State Park (New Jersey), two separate products.
Since. 15 June 2026, continuously.
What the data shows
Reopenings per day, by month
A sold-out slot showed spots again on each of the 101 days; over the 97 complete days the median is 50 a day, a quarter of days under 36, a quarter over 62.
When we started logging in June we assumed the volume would fall once school holidays ended. It rose.
| Month (ET) | Days | Complete days | New York | New Jersey | Total | Per complete day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June (from the 15th) | 16 | 15 | 454 | 223 | 677 | 43 |
| July | 31 | 29 | 865 | 385 | 1,250 | 42 |
| August | 31 | 31 | 1,158 | 490 | 1,648 | 53 |
| September (to the 23rd) | 23 | 22 | 1,003 | 462 | 1,465 | 62 |
| 15 Jun – 23 Sep 2026 | 101 | 97 | 3,480 | 1,560 | 5,040 | 50 |
Show the per-day distribution
| Per complete day (n = 97 days) | Reopenings |
|---|---|
| Mean | 50 |
| Median | 50 |
| A quarter of days below | 36 |
| A quarter of days above | 62 |
| One day in ten above | 70 |
| Quietest day (20 and 22 Jul) | 15 |
| Busiest day (21 Sep, the only one above 100) | 140 |
| Median distinct time slots per day | 29 |
| Median distinct releases per day (45-minute merge) | 30 |
By hour of the day
Midnight Eastern is the busiest single hour, with 14% of reopenings; 45% land between 9am and 6pm. n = 5,028: 12 reopenings logged at the restart after the 30–31 July outage carry the restart time and are left out of every time-of-day profile.
Show the numbers
| Six-hour block (ET) | Reopenings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight, midnight to 6am | 1,274 | 25% |
| Morning, 6am to noon | 1,167 | 23% |
| Afternoon, noon to 6pm | 1,458 | 29% |
| Evening, 6pm to midnight | 1,129 | 22% |
| Total | 5,028 | 100% |
By day of the week
Mondays and Tuesdays are a little busier (17% each), Fridays and Saturdays a little quieter (12%). Observed day, not visit day. Nothing worth planning around.
Show the numbers
| Weekday observed (ET) | Reopenings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 617 | 12% |
| Monday | 861 | 17% |
| Tuesday | 829 | 17% |
| Wednesday | 825 | 16% |
| Thursday | 697 | 14% |
| Friday | 600 | 12% |
| Saturday | 599 | 12% |
| Total | 5,028 | 100% |
How far ahead of the visit
Days between a reopening and its visit date. 43.5% were for visits three weeks or more away; about 42% for a visit within the next seven days. Median 14 days over the run, 19 in summer, 8 in September: closer to the visit as the season goes on. n = 4,782, from 22 June; in the first week the monitor looked only 75 days ahead.
Show the numbers
| Lead time | Reopenings | All (n = 4,782) | 22 Jun – 31 Aug (n = 3,317) | 1 – 23 Sep (n = 1,465) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 weeks or more before | 2,080 | 43% | 49% | 31% |
| 8 to 20 days before | 716 | 15% | 12% | 21% |
| 4 to 7 days before | 605 | 13% | 11% | 17% |
| 2 to 3 days before | 880 | 18% | 17% | 21% |
| Day before or same day | 501 | 10% | 10% | 10% |
| Within 7 days (the last three rows) | 1,986 | 42% | 39% | 48% |
| Median lead time | 14 days | 19 days | 8 days |
Shares rounded; the CSV has one decimal.
How long a reopened spot stays bookable
Minutes from the first check showing spots to the first showing none. Visit within a week (n = 2,104): half are sold out again within 30 minutes, a quarter within 12, the first spot taken after a median of 21 minutes; 23% fully gone within 10 minutes, 50% within 30, 70% within 60. Visit 15 or more days away: median 3 h 12. Our check interval rounds durations up; read them as “about”.
Show the numbers
| Visit is… | Reopenings measured | 25% gone by | Half gone by | 75% gone by | First spot taken (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| within 7 days | 2,104 | 12 min | 30 min | 72 min | 21 min |
| within 14 days | 2,559 | 12 min | 33 min | 81 min | 24 min |
| 15 days away or more | 2,439 | 45 min | 3 h 12 | 11 h 40 | 2 h 06 |
| All reopenings | 4,998 | 18 min | 63 min | 4 h 09 | 45 min |
Closed reopenings only; 55% showed two or more spots at their peak.
The two piers
New York accounted for 69% of reopenings (3,480), New Jersey for 31% (1,560): a share of what we observed, not of what each pier sells. One shared pool? Mostly not: only 16% of New Jersey reopenings had an exact New York twin (same time slot, same number of spots, within 3 minutes), and 7% the other way round.
Releases, outages and what we excluded
The one release. On 19 June 2026, around 8–9am Eastern, 14 slots for 4 July opened on both piers with 34 to 90 spots each: the announced July 4 (Sail250) sale, the only release of new tickets in 101 days; excluded above. Regular dates showed no batch release in that period.
Not a release. On 21 July, 22:12–22:33 Eastern, the New York calendar showed 0 spots on 438 slots for 21 minutes, then the same spots came back, 425 with the identical quantity: a feed interruption. The 443 reopenings logged at 22:33, and 9 durations it cut off, are excluded; version 2.0 had called it a release.
Outage, partial days, artifacts. Down 30 July 10:15 to 31 July 17:15 Eastern: 31 hours, 1.3% of the window, about 55 reopenings missed; 45.6 blind hours in all (under 2%). The 12 reopenings logged at the restart stay in the totals but out of the hour, weekday and duration profiles. Four partial days (15 June, 30–31 July, 23 September) are out of per-day statistics. 14 phantom episodes with no visible spot and the 14 July 4 slots are removed.
Two ways of counting. About 4 in 10 reopenings are the same slot resurfacing within 45 minutes, after an unpaid checkout expires; 3 in 4 return the identical number of spots. As episodes: 5,040 reopenings. As chains: 2,971 distinct releases (59%), about 30 a day. 21 September, the busiest day, was 140 reopenings on 52 slots, about 65 distinct releases, with no check missed: real, not a malfunction.
Download the data
Plain CSV, day-level only. Reuse under CC BY 4.0 with credit and a link: daily (101 rows) · hourly (24) · weekday (7) · lead time (5) · monthly (4) · spot lifetime (4) · release events (2).
Show the columns of each file
| File | Rows | Columns |
|---|---|---|
| crown-reopenings-daily.csv | 101 | date_et, new_york, new_jersey, reopenings (the 101 values sum to 5,040), distinct_slots, distinct_release_chains_45min, partial_day |
| crown-reopenings-hourly-profile.csv | 24 | hour_et (0–23), reopenings_15jun_23sep, share_pct, reopenings_15jun_31aug, reopenings_1sep_23sep; n = 5,028 |
| crown-reopenings-lead-time.csv | 5 | Five lead-time buckets with counts and shares for 22 Jun – 23 Sep, 22 Jun – 31 Aug and 1 – 23 Sep; n = 4,782 |
| crown-reopenings-monthly.csv | 4 | month, reopenings, days_observed, complete_days, per_complete_day, new_york, new_jersey |
| crown-reopenings-weekday.csv | 7 | weekday_observed_et, reopenings, share_pct; n = 5,028 |
| crown-spot-lifetime.csv | 4 | Per scope: closed episodes, quartiles of minutes until sold out again, median minutes until the first spot was taken, share gone within 10, 30 and 60 minutes |
| crown-release-events.csv | 2 | observed_at_et, kind, pier, slots_opened, visit_date, avg_spots_per_slot, note: the July 4 sale of 19 June and the 21 July feed interruption |
How to cite this dataset
SoldOutRadar (2026). Statue of Liberty Crown Ticket Reopening Dataset, v2.1: 15 June – 23 September 2026 (5,040 reopenings, both piers). https://soldoutradar.com/how-we-track-crown-availability
Charts are CC BY 4.0 too, attribution printed on each image.
Limitations
We see the public calendar, not the operator's inventory; anything that opens and closes between two checks is invisible to us.
101 days of one year, mid-June to late September 2026; no winter data yet.
Two products only: Crown Reserve from New York and from New Jersey.
Past events, not live inventory: for what is open now use the live calendar, and always confirm on the official site.
What we don't know
- Why a spot reopened, or why so many land at midnight. Expired checkouts is our guess.
- How the operator adds regular dates: no batch release in 101 days.
- What the off-season looks like; we will know in the spring.
Changelog
- v2 and v2.1: definition tightened to slots going from 0 to 1+, window extended to 101 days (ends 23 Sep 23:40 ET), lifetime and pier measures added; data-quality audit: 28 artifact episodes removed, 21 July feed interruption reclassified, distinct-release count and per-day distribution added; all CSV files and charts replaced, version 1 withdrawn.
- v1: first snapshot, 21 days. Superseded.
Who collects this
Collected and published by SoldOutRadar, an independent monitoring service, not affiliated with Statue City Cruises, City Experiences or the National Park Service; details in our legal notice. Errors or custom extracts: hello@soldoutradar.com. Researchers and journalists first.
Where we come in
This is the monitoring our alerts run on. One payment, no subscription; you book on the official site.