Flock & ALPR Cameras in Brownsville, New York
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Brownsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Brownsville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Brownsville itself.
The rest sit in New York (27).
26 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (22), New York City 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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- Sep 8 Ekin Box Spotter camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Brownsville
The readers mapped around Brownsville break down as 20 Ekin Box Spotter, 4 Leonardo, 2 Mav (IQ:350XR). Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Atlantic Avenue — 5 readers
- Utica Avenue — 4 readers
- Rockaway Avenue — 2 readers
- East New York Avenue — 2 readers
- Linden Boulevard — 2 readers
- Buffalo Avenue — 2 readers
- Eastern Parkway — 2 readers
- Eastern Parkway South Mall — 2 readers
- Kings Highway — 1 reader
- Eastern Parkway North Mall — 1 reader
- Howard Avenue — 1 reader
- Pitkin Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Brownsville — all on the live map above.
Brownsville 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 26 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (21), New York City Police Department (4).
Camera activity around Brownsville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Brownsville. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Brownsville
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 Brownsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Brownsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Brownsville
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Brownsville, NY
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Brownsville, NY
What you can do in Brownsville
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.
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Cameras near Brownsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).