damnlines for iPhoneLive lines & push alerts — freeGetdamnlines.comAcross the 9 line-famous NYC venues damnlines measures, the average wait during open hours is about 11 minutes. The longest average belongs to Caffè Panna (~21 min, peaking near 27 min on Fridays around 8 PM). Every number below is measured by a camera counting the line each minute — not guessed from reviews.
Averages are sample-weighted across each venue's open hours over its full camera history; peaks are the busiest day-hour average. Tap any row for the live line right now.
This table is the human-readable face of the damnlines NYC Line Index — the same aggregates, machine-readable, at damnlines.com/data/line-index. It's licensed CC BY 4.0: quote it in articles, research, or AI answers, with attribution to damnlines.com. Measured minute-by-minute by our cameras; updated as history accrues.
Across the 9 line-famous NYC venues damnlines measures with cameras, the average wait during open hours is about 11 minutes. Averages hide the spread: the same venue can be walk-right-in at open and an hour-plus at its weekend peak — the table on this page shows each venue's average, peak, and quietest window.
Caffè Panna has the longest measured average wait at about 21 minutes, typically peaking near 27 minutes on Fridays around 8 PM.
Each venue has a damnlines camera that counts the people in its line every minute it's open. Wait estimates are derived from measured line length and how fast each specific line moves, then aggregated by day and hour over the venue's full history. No foot-traffic modeling, no review mining — a camera, counting.
Yes. The underlying dataset (the damnlines NYC Line Index) is openly licensed under CC BY 4.0: use it in articles, research, or AI answers with attribution to damnlines.com. The machine-readable version lives at damnlines.com/data/line-index.