The Cup is here. We brought the tech home.
A free, hour-by-hour phone-safety map for New York, built for the World Cup. No sign-up, no tracking, just the street truth, block by block, across all five boroughs. Six years on the ground in Rio, home for the summer.
The street changes by the hour. So does the map.
Slide the hour
Midtown at noon is not Midtown at 1am. Drag the time and every neighborhood recolors, green for easy, gold for stay sharp, red for phone away. It is the difference between a great night and a bad story.
Match-day aware
It knows the schedule. MetLife Stadium, just across the river in the Meadowlands, hosts eight World Cup matches including the Final on July 19. The map lights the safe ways in and counts down the crush, so you plan your way back before kickoff.
The subway, made simple
The platforms and the late-night cars carry their own pattern. The map reads the station blocks hour by hour, points you to the blue Help Points, and tells you the safest car and where to wait. Crowd pattern up top means bags zipped and in front, phone in your pocket.
An honest SOS
No false promises. One tap to 911, one tap to text your people your live location. We do not pretend to have a team on the ground in New York, that is what the full app does in Rio.
Alerts you can rehearse
Open the Alerts sheet and preview every tap on the shoulder before you need it: the zone-line buzz, the match-day amber, the High Line cautions, the watching confirmation. Alerts fire while the app is open in your hand. No background tracking, no push spam, your location never leaves your phone.
Put it on your phone
No city-app download, no sign-up. Open bbenyc.netlify.app on your phone, then iPhone: Share, Add to Home Screen. Android: Menu, Add to Home Screen. It installs like an app and works on the sidewalk.
The High Line, walked with you.
The map traces the whole elevated park from the real trail data, from Gansevoort Street up around the West Side Yard to 34th Street and Hudson Yards. Pick your stops and how long you want to walk, and the map builds the route, times it, and walks it with you stop by stop. It also tells the truth the brochures skip: after dark, red markers light the quiet stretches and the access points, so you stay on the lit path and exit with company. Love it fully, walk it smart.
This is one percent of B.E Guardian.
In Rio the same tech comes with humans: live protection, snatch detection, cash rescue when a card dies, vetted locals who walk the night with you, and a team that answers when you hit SOS. Going to Brazil after the Cup? That is the whole story.
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