Flock & ALPR Cameras in New York City, New York
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around New York City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of New York City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside New York City itself.
The rest sit in New York (11).
11 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (5), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (4), Metropolitan Transit Authority (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 New York City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in New York City
The readers mapped around New York City break down as 7 Redspeed Redcurb, 2 Ekin x spotter, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metropolitan Transit Authority. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Broadway — 3 readers
- Rose Street — 2 readers
- Park Row — 2 readers
- Centre Street — 2 readers
- Brooklyn Bridge — 1 reader
- Ari Halbertam Memorial Ramp — 1 reader
New York City 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 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (5), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (4), Metropolitan Transit Authority (2).
What’s watching New York City
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 New York City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to New York City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
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What you can do in New York City
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 New York City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).