Flock & ALPR Cameras in Canarsie, New York
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Canarsie — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Canarsie, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Canarsie itself.
The rest sit in New York (28).
28 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (18), New York City Police Department (6), New York City Department of Transportation (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 10 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Canarsie
The readers mapped around Canarsie break down as 17 Ekin Box Spotter, 5 Genetec, 4 Mav (IQ:350XR). Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department, New York City Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Pennsylvania Avenue — 5 readers
- Flatlands Avenue — 4 readers
- Ralph Avenue — 2 readers
- Linden Boulevard — 2 readers
- Louisiana Avenue — 1 reader
- Will Place — 1 reader
- Stanley Avenue — 1 reader
- Foster Avenue — 1 reader
- Remsen Avenue — 1 reader
- Ditmas Avenue — 1 reader
- Rockaway Avenue — 1 reader
- Seaview Avenue — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Canarsie — all on the live map above.
Canarsie 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 (17), New York City Police Department (5), New York City Department of Transportation (4).
Camera activity around Canarsie, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Canarsie. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Canarsie
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 Canarsie — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Canarsie (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Canarsie
What you can do in Canarsie
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 Canarsie
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).