Flock & ALPR Cameras in Times Square, New York
Volunteers have reported 70 automated license plate readers in and around Times Square — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 70 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Times Square, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Times Square itself.
The rest sit in New York (70).
65 of them name an operator in the record: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (36), NYC Department of Transportation (12), PANYNJ (12), New York Police Department (3), MTA Bridges and Tunnels (1), Metropolitan Transit Authority (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 21 Mav (IQ:350XR) camera newly reported
- Sep 21 Mav (IQ:350XR) camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Times Square
The readers mapped around Times Square break down as 39 Redspeed Redcurb, 12 Kapsch VRX-350x, 5 Ekin x spotter. Named operators in the reports: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, PANYNJ, NYC Department of Transportation, New York Police Department, MTA Bridges and Tunnels. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2023; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Lincoln Tunnel Expressway — 8 readers
- West 42nd Street — 6 readers
- West 38th Street — 5 readers
- Dyer Avenue — 5 readers
- 2nd Avenue — 5 readers
- West 30th Street — 3 readers
- West 40th Street — 3 readers
- West 34th Street — 3 readers
- Park Avenue — 2 readers
- West 35th Street — 2 readers
- West 36th Street — 2 readers
- West 31st Street — 2 readers
+ 15 more streets and roads mapped around Times Square — all on the live map above.
Times Square 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 68 traffic. Operators named on the record: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (36), PANYNJ (12), NYC Department of Transportation (10).
What’s watching Times Square
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 Times Square — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Times Square (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Times Square
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Times Square, NY
- NYPD warns public to avoid Times Square amid officer-involved shooting
- Privacy group sues MTA over use of facial recognition at Times Square subway station
- Privacy group sues MTA over alleged 'spy tools' installed at Times Square subway station
What you can do in Times Square
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 Times Square
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).