Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hell's Kitchen, New York
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Hell's Kitchen — 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 Hell's Kitchen, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hell's Kitchen itself.
The rest sit in New York (25).
21 of them name an operator in the record: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (14), NYC Department of Transportation (6), New York City Department of environmental protection (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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No new reports near Hell's Kitchen in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hell's Kitchen
The readers mapped around Hell's Kitchen break down as 17 Redspeed Redcurb, 4 Ekin Box Spotter, 1 soundvue noise camera. Named operators in the reports: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Department of environmental protection. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 41st Street — 4 readers
- West 42nd Street — 3 readers
- West Side Highway — 2 readers
- Broadway — 2 readers
- Columbus Avenue — 2 readers
- West End Avenue — 1 reader
- Freedom Place South — 1 reader
- West 40th Street — 1 reader
- 10th Avenue — 1 reader
- West 39th Street — 1 reader
- West 51st Street — 1 reader
- Central Park West — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Hell's Kitchen — all on the live map above.
Hell's Kitchen 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 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (14), NYC Department of Transportation (6), New York City Department of environmental protection (1).
Camera activity around Hell's Kitchen, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hell's Kitchen. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Hell's Kitchen
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 Hell's Kitchen — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hell's Kitchen (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hell's Kitchen
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 Hell's Kitchen
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).