Flock & ALPR Cameras in East New York, New York
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around East New York — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East New York, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East New York itself.
The rest sit in New York (33).
30 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (22), New York City Police Department (5), The Home Depot (2), New York City 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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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in East New York
The readers mapped around East New York break down as 23 Ekin Box Spotter, 4 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department, The Home Depot, New York City Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Linden Boulevard — 9 readers
- Flatlands Avenue — 4 readers
- Pennsylvania Avenue — 2 readers
- Liberty Avenue — 2 readers
- Erskine Street — 2 readers
- Seaview Avenue — 2 readers
- Gateway Plaza — 2 readers
- New Lots Avenue — 2 readers
- Fountain Avenue — 2 readers
- Schenck Street — 1 reader
- Pitkin Avenue — 1 reader
- Gateway Drive — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around East New York — all on the live map above.
East New York 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 30 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (22), New York City Police Department (5), The Home Depot (2).
What’s watching East New York
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 East New York — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East New York (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around East New York
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near East New York, NY
- 4 new license plate readers reported around East New York, NY
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East New York, NY
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East New York, NY
What you can do in East New York
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 East New York
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).