Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coney Island, New York
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Coney Island — 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 Coney Island, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Coney Island itself.
The rest sit in New York (13).
9 of them name an operator in the record: New York Police Department (8), NYC Department of Transportation (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 Coney Island in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Coney Island
The readers mapped around Coney Island break down as 8 Leonardo, 4 Flock Safety, 1 Ekin Box Spotter. Named operators in the reports: New York Police Department, NYC Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Cropsey Avenue — 4 readers
- Surf Avenue — 2 readers
- Neptune Avenue — 2 readers
- Stillwell Avenue — 2 readers
- Mermaid Avenue — 1 reader
- Bay 54th Street — 1 reader
- Bay 53rd Street — 1 reader
Coney Island 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 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: New York Police Department (8), NYC Department of Transportation (1).
Camera activity around Coney Island, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Coney Island. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Coney Island
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 Coney Island — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coney Island (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Coney Island
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 Coney Island
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).