I’ve been noticing these white discs around the neighborhood and am wondering if you know what they are. This one is at the northeast corner of Warren and Church, and I saw another one above the Raccoon Lodge. I’m curious! —M.
Since those locations—30 Warren and the “W. Broadway assemblage”—are both being developed by Cape Advisors, I reached out to a rep for the company, who said that “the little white dishes are security cameras.” Doing a bit of research online led me to suspect that the dishes are actually wi-fi antennas/transmitters for cameras that are not visible in the photos, which the rep subsequently confirmed.
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