{"id":378535,"date":"2026-10-21T02:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T02:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T02:10:23","slug":"omny-card-readers-destroyed-security-cameras-painted-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378535\/","title":{"rendered":"OMNY card readers destroyed, security cameras painted in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (PIX11) &#8212; Police are on the hunt after multiple OMNY machines were destroyed in Brooklyn last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Seven OMNY card readers were damaged and multiple surveillance cameras were sprayed with red paint at the Church Avenue subway station in Flatbush last Wednesday just after 12:30 p.m., authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Stay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Stay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MTA sources told PIX11 that they&#8217;ve since repaired the OMNY readers, and crew members are making regular site visits at the station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Social media video circulating online appeared to show at least two people painting the cameras and using a drill to destroy the card reader glass. The pair also appeared to leave behind papers that read &#8220;live free, ride free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation is still underway, and there have been no arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dominique Jack is a digital content producer from Brooklyn with more than five years of experience covering news. She joined PIX11 in 2024. More of her work can be found <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/dominique-jack\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (PIX11) &#8212; Police are on the hunt after multiple OMNY machines were destroyed in Brooklyn last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-378535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}