Flock & ALPR Cameras in Downtown Brooklyn, New York
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Downtown Brooklyn — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 31 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Downtown Brooklyn, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Downtown Brooklyn itself.
The rest sit in New York (31).
21 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (14), New York City Police Department (7). 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 Downtown Brooklyn in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Downtown Brooklyn
The readers mapped around Downtown Brooklyn break down as 6 Leonardo, 6 Ekin Box Spotter, 6 ARVOO DIAMOND. 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 Jul 2026.
- Fulton Street — 4 readers
- Park Avenue — 2 readers
- Flatbush Avenue Extension — 2 readers
- Atlantic Avenue — 2 readers
- Navy Yard Drive — 2 readers
- Navy Street — 2 readers
- Flushing Avenue — 2 readers
- Flatbush Avenue — 2 readers
- Waverly Avenue — 1 reader
- Washington Park — 1 reader
- Lafayette Avenue — 1 reader
- Manhattan Bridge — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Downtown Brooklyn — all on the live map above.
Downtown Brooklyn 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 31 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (14), New York City Police Department (7).
What’s watching Downtown Brooklyn
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 Downtown Brooklyn — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Downtown Brooklyn (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Downtown Brooklyn
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 Downtown Brooklyn
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).