STATEN ISLAND, N.Y — While most Staten Islanders could rattle off the locations of several speed cameras, it seems like enough drivers are still getting caught unaware.

Five speed cameras on Staten Island generated more than $5 million in fines over the course of the year, according to new data from New York City.

These five cameras — part of a network of roughly 230 permanent and mobile speed cameras across the borough — issued a total of 100,618 tickets between the beginning of January and Nov. 24, the latest data available from the New York City Department of Finance.

This represents nearly one-quarter of all speed camera tickets issued on Staten Island through 2025.

With a $50 fine per speeding ticket, that totals just over $5 million in fines from these top five cameras alone.

In total, 400,620 summonses were issued by automatic speed cameras between Jan. 1 and Nov. 24 on Staten Island, generating around $20 million in fines throughout 2025, according to the data.

Using publicly available information from New York City’s Open Data portal, the Advance/SILive.com looked at speed camera violations for 2025 published by the Department of Finance.

Here are the five most active speed cameras on Staten Island, according to city data collected between January and the end of November.

5. Hylan Boulevard & Ainsworth Avenue

Direction: Southbound

Tickets issued: 12,534

Fines: $626,700

4. Willow Road East & Home Place

Direction: Northbound

Tickets issued: 16,780

Fines: $839,000

3. Clove Road & Niagara Street

Direction: Southbound

Tickets issued: 22,608

Fines: $1,130,400

2. Goethals Road North & Jules Drive

Direction: Westbound

Tickets issued: 23,276

Fines: $1,163,800

1. Willow Road West & Forest Avenue

Direction: Southbound

Tickets issued: 25,240

Fines: $1,271,000

Over the course of 2025, the Advance/SILive.com visited some of these top speed camera locations to assess what makes them so lucrative.

At Hylan Boulevard and Ainsworth Avenue, one driver was recorded going over 60 mph near the intersection with the speed camera.

Additionally over a 30-minute period, the average recorded speed of the cars was 32.2 MPH, and the speed most frequently recorded was 33 MPH.

While technically over the limit, those cars were still within the roughly 10 MPH leeway that drivers get before triggering the camera.

Near Goethals Road North and Jules Drive, one resident described the camera as “the moneymaker” when speaking to a reporter.

“Oh the moneymaker? That’s the moneymaker,” Kurt Timmermann of Graniteville said.

Though Timmermann acknowledged drivers’ frustrations of not being able to slow down in time, he also argued the camera is for the greater good.

“This one is worth it. It’s ridiculous, but to be honest with you it does work,” Timmermann said.

Although the Clove Road and Niagara Street camera was only installed in summer 2024, it has frequently ranked near the top for the most active speed cameras.

Even though the camera is going off frequently, one resident said that the speeding situation hasn’t improved.

“Oh yeah I see the camera here going off a lot. I guess people don’t know about it, but it goes off all the time,” Joe F., who lives in Sunnyside, recently told the Advance/SILive.com, asking his last name not be published.

“I still think there is a bad speeding problem, but I don’t think the camera helped,” he continued.

This summer, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation to keep New York City’s speed cameras running for the rest of the decade.

Near the end of June, Hochul put her signature to legislation that extends the city’s school zone speed cameras through 2030.

The governor’s signature came right before the bill that authorized the city’s speed camera network was set to expire on July 1.

According to Hochul’s office, intersections with speed cameras saw over 90% fewer speeding violations and 14% less injuries and fatalities than locations without cameras.

Earlier in June, the New York State Assembly and State Senate both passed the legislation to renew the speed camera program.