How we track Statue of Liberty Crown availability
This page documents where our Crown availability numbers come from — the source, the method, the sample size, and the limits — and lets you download the raw data and check it yourself. It's a reference, not a sales page.
At a glance
Everything below is drawn from a single, continuous observation window: 21 days of summer peak season, 15 June to 5 July 2026. During that window our monitor checked the official Crown reservation calendar around the clock and recorded every time a sold-out slot dropped back to available.
The “last 14 days” counter shown elsewhere on this site is a rolling window over this same data — typically around 2,000 reopenings on any given fortnight in this period.
What we mean by a “reopening”
A reopening is one transition of a Crown time-slot from 0 available spots to 1 or more, detected by comparing two consecutive snapshots of the official reservation calendar. For each one we record the visit date, the departure port (New York or New Jersey), and the time we observed it (US Eastern Time).
Two things this definition deliberately does not claim:
- It counts events, not unique spots. The same date can reopen and refill several times in a day; each transition to available counts once.
- It is not a spot-level inventory. We do not publish how many seats were free, prices, or who booked — only that a slot went from sold out to open.
How we collect it
- Source. The public reservation calendar on the official operator's site (Statue City Cruises). We read the same pages a visitor would — we do not use any private or operator-internal feed.
- Frequency. Each tracked date is re-checked roughly every 3 minutes, day and night.
- Both ports. Crown access is sold from two departure points — New York (Battery Park) and New Jersey (Liberty State Park). We track both separately.
- Since. Continuous automated monitoring has run since 15 June 2026. This dataset is the first full snapshot; we refresh it periodically.
The data
The full daily series is below and downloadable. Two headline patterns come straight out of it: New York reopens far more than New Jersey (about three to one), and reopenings arrive on every single day of the window — the smallest daily total was 42.
| Date (ET) | New York | New Jersey | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 15 Jun | 42 | 17 | 59 |
| Tue 16 Jun | 42 | 15 | 57 |
| Wed 17 Jun | 49 | 15 | 64 |
| Thu 18 Jun | 27 | 15 | 42 |
| Fri 19 Jun | 56 | 63 | 119 |
| Sat 20 Jun | 35 | 39 | 74 |
| Sun 21 Jun | 42 | 25 | 67 |
| Mon 22 Jun | 63 | 34 | 97 |
| Tue 23 Jun | 86 | 21 | 107 |
| Wed 24 Jun | 134 | 35 | 169 |
| Thu 25 Jun | 134 | 49 | 183 |
| Fri 26 Jun | 82 | 20 | 102 |
| Sat 27 Jun | 97 | 26 | 123 |
| Sun 28 Jun | 126 | 34 | 160 |
| Mon 29 Jun | 159 | 39 | 198 |
| Tue 30 Jun | 139 | 43 | 182 |
| Wed 1 Jul | 97 | 20 | 117 |
| Thu 2 Jul | 96 | 25 | 121 |
| Fri 3 Jul | 122 | 43 | 165 |
| Sat 4 Jul | 138 | 48 | 186 |
| Sun 5 Jul | 54 | 22 | 76 |
| Total | 1,820 | 648 | 2,468 |
When reopenings happen
Aggregated across the window, reopenings arrive at every hour. Split into four six-hour blocks, afternoon and morning carry the most volume — but overnight isn't dead, thanks to one sharp spike in the midnight hour (222 reopenings, 9% of the total, the single busiest hour of the 24):
| Block (ET) | Reopenings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight (12–6am) | 496 | |
| Morning (6am–12pm) | 677 | |
| Afternoon (12–6pm) | 762 | |
| Evening (6pm–12am) | 533 | |
| Total | 2,468 | 100% |
The hour-by-hour breakdown — and why “just check at midnight” misses most reopenings — is in when Crown tickets reopen. All 24 hourly counts are in the CSV below.
How far ahead spots reopen
For each reopening we measure the gap between the day we saw it and the visit date it was for. Most reopenings are for dates weeks out — but a meaningful tail lands within a few days:
| Lead time | Reopenings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 3+ weeks ahead | 1,831 | |
| 1–3 weeks ahead | 218 | |
| 4–7 days ahead | 98 | |
| 2–3 days ahead | 221 | |
| Day before / same day | 100 |
Download the data
The raw counts, as plain CSV. Re-add them up, cross-check the totals, chart them differently — that's the point. Reuse is welcome under CC BY 4.0 (just credit SoldOutRadar with a link).
SoldOutRadar (2026). Statue of Liberty Crown Ticket Reopening Dataset,
15 June – 5 July 2026 (2,468 reopenings across 153 visit dates).
https://soldoutradar.com/how-we-track-crown-availability
Limitations
We'd rather you trust the numbers because we're honest about what they can and can't say:
- We see the public calendar, not the operator's inventory. A spot that opens and is retaken between two 3-minute checks is never counted — so the true number of reopenings is somewhat higher than what we log, not lower.
- It's a summer-peak snapshot. These 21 days fall in high season. Off-season volumes are lower; read this as a summer profile, not a year-round average.
- Two ports only. The figures cover Crown-access bookings from New York and New Jersey — nothing else on the official site.
- Past events, not live inventory. This page counts reopenings that already happened. For what's open right now, use the live calendar, and always confirm and book on the official operator's own site — our data can lag it.