Flock & ALPR Cameras in Harlem, New York
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Harlem — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Harlem, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Harlem itself.
The rest sit in New York (25).
23 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (19), New York City Department of Transportation (3), 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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- Sep 25 Ekin Box Spotter camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Harlem
The readers mapped around Harlem break down as 11 Ekin Box Spotter, 11 Mav (IQ:350XR), 1 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West 125th Street — 9 readers
- East 125th Street — 4 readers
- Malcolm X Boulevard — 3 readers
- West 145th Street — 2 readers
- 5th Avenue — 2 readers
- East 135th Street — 1 reader
- Amsterdam Avenue — 1 reader
- Madison Avenue — 1 reader
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard — 1 reader
Harlem 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 24 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (18), New York City Department of Transportation (3), New York City Police Department (1).
What’s watching Harlem
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 Harlem — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Harlem (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Harlem
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 Harlem
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).