The New York State Office of General Services has an interesting site. This site has a live camera from the top of the Erastus Corning Tower Building in Albany, NY. It is updated every two (2) minutes. Now you can see downtown Albany "live"!

Current photo of Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY

I have checked the above link several times lately and it doesn't seem to be working. Since I don't know if the problem is temporary or not, I won't delete it yet.

Another link is provided below. This camera looks at the Empire State Plaza from the Northwest:

WRGB webcam