Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bergen Beach, New York
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Bergen Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bergen Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Bergen Beach itself.
The rest sit in New York (13).
10 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (8), New York City Police Department (1), The Home Depot (1). 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 Bergen Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bergen Beach
The readers mapped around Bergen Beach break down as 8 Ekin Box Spotter, 4 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Avenue U — 5 readers
- Flatlands Avenue — 2 readers
- Bergen Avenue — 1 reader
- Avenue M — 1 reader
- Seaview Avenue — 1 reader
- Avenue K — 1 reader
- Mill Avenue — 1 reader
- East 85th Street — 1 reader
Bergen Beach in the Kings County picture
Kings County has 273 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,753 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,646,306 residents and 209 road miles. By road density that is 1.31 cameras per road mile, in the top 0% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (7), New York City Police Department (1), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Bergen Beach, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bergen Beach. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Bergen Beach
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 Bergen Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bergen Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bergen Beach
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 Bergen Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).