Flock & ALPR Cameras in Brooklyn Heights, New York
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Brooklyn Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Brooklyn Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Brooklyn Heights itself.
The rest sit in New York (4).
2 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (2). 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 Brooklyn Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Brooklyn Heights
The readers mapped around Brooklyn Heights break down as 2 Leonardo, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.
- Brooklyn Bridge — 2 readers
- Brooklyn-Queens Expressway — 2 readers
Brooklyn Heights 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 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (2).
What’s watching Brooklyn Heights
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 Brooklyn Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Brooklyn Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Brooklyn Heights
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 Brooklyn Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).