Flock & ALPR Cameras in Financial District, New York
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Financial District — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Financial District, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Financial District itself.
The rest sit in New York (19).
19 of them name an operator in the record: New York Police Department (8), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (5), NYC M.T.A (4), NYC Department of Transportation (2). 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 Financial District in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Financial District
The readers mapped around Financial District break down as 12 Leonardo, 5 Redspeed Redcurb, 2 Mav (IQ:350XR). Named operators in the reports: New York Police Department, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NYC M.T.A, NYC Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- New York — 4 readers
- Broadway — 3 readers
- FDR Drive — 3 readers
- Greenwich Street — 2 readers
- State Street — 1 reader
- Exchange Alley — 1 reader
- Brooklyn Bridge — 1 reader
- Thames Street — 1 reader
- Liberty Street — 1 reader
- Cedar Street — 1 reader
- William Street — 1 reader
Financial District in the New York County picture
New York County has 299 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,444 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,627,788 residents and 135 road miles. By road density that is 2.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 0% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: New York Police Department (8), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (5), NYC M.T.A (4).
What’s watching Financial District
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 Financial District — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Financial District (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Financial District
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 Financial District
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).