Exclusive | Knicks fan uses traffic cameras to document elation, chaos outside MSG during Finals

Smile! You’re on chaos camera.The stress, anxiety and ultimate euphoria of Knicks fans who swarmed outside Madison Square Garden Wednesday was captured by a series of Midtown traffic cams.Artist Morry Kolman launched GardenCam to document the basketball bedlam for those who can’t make it — or are too scared to join in on — the mayhem outside MSG during NBA Finals games.“I saw that there was a lot of energy around them.And as a native New Yorker, I wanted to kind of make something that other New Yorkers could enjoy and feel like they were taking part in this really special moment,” Kolam told The Post.

“You can actually see and experience that fervor in real time.”The crowd for Game 4 on Wednesday was the first that was captured by GardenCam — an aggregation of six traffic camera livestreams positioned outside the Garden for fans to “watch people watch the Knicks.”But there was little people-watching to do on Wednesday after MSG canceled its outside watch party around 5 p.m.— just hours ahead of tip-off.Instead, the livestreams captured fans surging into and out of the World’s Most Famous Arena, and the videos even captured the NYPD establishing a perimeter around the area.Uncontained rowdiness was pushed out of the camera’s view and onto nearby neighborhoods, including down to the West Village, where several blocks were completely taken over by cheering fans.Kolman launched GardenCam last week as a means of paying homage to the Knicks during their historic run for the NBA title. At the suggestion of a “handsome lawyer friend,” Kolman, a software engineer, repackaged his uber-popular TrafficCamPhotoBooth.com project, which gave New Yorkers access to more than 900 city traffic cameras in real time by linking users up to the Department of Transportation’s readily available streams on its own site.He was also inspired to invigorate the Knicks-version by the eyes-on-the-ground views of the “orange and blue” flood around MSG tha...