Flock & ALPR Cameras in Washington Heights, New York
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Washington Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Washington Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Washington Heights itself.
The rest sit in New York (15).
12 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (7), New York Police Department (2), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (1), NYPD (1), 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 Washington Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Washington Heights
The readers mapped around Washington Heights break down as 6 Leonardo, 4 Mav (IQ:350XR), 3 Ekin Box Spotter. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York Police Department, NYPD, New York City Department of environmental protection, Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- West 181st Street — 4 readers
- George Washington Bridge Upper Level — 3 readers
- Cross Bronx Expressway — 2 readers
- Amsterdam Avenue — 2 readers
- NorthWalk — 1 reader
- Saint Nicholas Avenue — 1 reader
- Washington Bridge — 1 reader
- Broadway — 1 reader
Washington Heights 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 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (7), New York Police Department (2), NYPD (1).
What’s watching Washington Heights
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 Washington Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Washington Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Washington Heights
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 Washington Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).