About
At, 100-plus Times Square billboards switch to Dustin Grella's hand-chalked animation of the Moondance Diner and East Village stoops.
Every night just before midnight, Times Square's screens drop their ads and play Dustin Grella's Sunday Morning, animated from drawings on a chalkboard salvaged from an 1800s schoolhouse. Grella compresses more than twenty years of footage into a three-minute loop of blinking walk signals, the old Moondance Diner, a Central Park picnic and an East Village stoop from his first days in the city. If you're out late in Midtown, stop for three quiet minutes.
What to expect
Expect the billboards between 41st and 49th Streets to shift in unison to the chalk animation for about three minutes. The pedestrian plazas along Broadway are the best spots to take in several screens at once, and an audio guide accompanies the work online.
Good to know
- Watch from the Broadway pedestrian plazas between 41st and 49th Streets; the red TKTS steps give a wide view.
- Arrive a few minutes early and look up; it starts in sync across the screens.
- Times Square Arts offers an audio guide for the piece.
- Any 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W or S train to Times Square–42nd Street puts you there.
- Crowds are thinner late on weeknights than on weekend nights.
Common questions
When does Midnight Moment play?
It runs nightly from 11:57pm to midnight through Saturday, October 31, 2026.
Where does Sunday Morning appear?
The work appears on Times Square billboards along Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets.
How long is the animation?
Sunday Morning is a three-minute loop created from more than twenty years of footage.
How did Dustin Grella make the work?
Grella hand-drew the illustrations on a chalkboard salvaged from an 1800s schoolhouse.
Is there an audio guide?
Yes. The official project page links a time-synchronized audio experience for Sunday Morning.