Flock & ALPR Cameras in Battery Park City, New York
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Battery Park City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Battery Park City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Battery Park City itself.
The rest sit in New York (8).
4 of them name an operator in the record: New York Police Department (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Battery Park City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 23:31 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Battery Park City
The readers mapped around Battery Park City break down as 6 Leonardo, 2 Redspeed Redcurb. Named operators in the reports: New York Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2023; the most recent in May 2026.
- FDR Drive — 2 readers
- Liberty Street Bridge — 2 readers
- West Street — 2 readers
- Cedar Street — 2 readers
Battery Park City in the New York County picture
New York County has 299 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,444 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,627,788 residents and 135 road miles. By road density that is 2.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 0% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: New York Police Department (4).
What’s watching Battery Park City
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Battery Park City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Battery Park City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Battery Park City
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Battery Park City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).