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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dyker Heights, New York

Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Dyker Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dyker Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Dyker Heights itself.

The rest sit in New York (5).

5 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (4), New York City Police Department (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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Live camera map 5 reported cameras around Dyker Heights, New York
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Camera Watch Recently reported near Dyker Heights

No new reports near Dyker Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Dyker Heights

The readers mapped around Dyker Heights break down as 3 Ekin Box Spotter, 2 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department. Every report here dates to Apr 2026.

  • 86th Street — 1 reader
  • Bay Ridge Parkway — 1 reader
  • 70th Street — 1 reader
  • 7th Avenue — 1 reader
  • Fort Hamilton Parkway — 1 reader

Dyker 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 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (4), New York City Police Department (1).

What’s watching Dyker 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 Dyker Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dyker 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 Dyker 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.

Cameras near Dyker Heights

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).