Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn announced on Wednesday, Oct. 21, that the city has installed red-light cameras at 600 intersections across the five boroughs, the maximum state law allows.

In North Brooklyn and Ridgewood, red-light cameras ticketed drivers at 15 intersections from June 7 to Aug. 17, the most recent period in the city’s ticket records, a Bushwick Daily analysis of Department of Finance violation data found. Fourteen of the 15 first issued tickets on or after Jan. 9, 2026, the day DOT began switching on the new cameras. The most-ticketed was Metropolitan Avenue at Stewart Avenue in East Williamsburg, with 1,354 tickets in those 10 weeks, followed by Bushwick Avenue at Eastern Parkway, with 1,179, and Bushwick Avenue at Cooper Street, with 1,090. Cameras switched on after mid-August do not yet appear in the data.

Red-light cameras previously operated at 150 intersections, the maximum then allowed, until the state legislature authorized the city to raise the total to 600. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed that bill in 2024, 6sqft reported. DOT began activating the additional cameras in January at 50 intersections a week, with a goal of reaching 600 by the end of 2026.