Flock & ALPR Cameras in Astoria, New York
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Astoria — 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 Astoria, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Astoria itself.
The rest sit in New York (15).
12 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (5), MTA Bridges and Tunnels (2), New York City Police Department (2), Metropolitan Transit Authority (1), Verra Mobility NYC DOT Speed camera (1), Verra Mobility operated NYC DOT red light camera (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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- Sep 11 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 11 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Astoria
The readers mapped around Astoria break down as 5 Ekin Box Spotter, 3 Flock Safety, 2 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, MTA Bridges and Tunnels, New York City Police Department, Metropolitan Transit Authority. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Broadway — 4 readers
- Robert F. Kennedy Bridge — 2 readers
- Grand Central Parkway — 1 reader
- Hoyt Avenue North — 1 reader
- Roosevelt Island Bridge — 1 reader
- 34th Avenue — 1 reader
- 21st Street — 1 reader
- 36th Avenue — 1 reader
- Astoria Park South — 1 reader
- Hoyt Avenue South — 1 reader
- 41st Street — 1 reader
Astoria in the Queens County picture
Queens County has 307 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,621 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,330,124 residents and 737 road miles. By road density that is 0.42 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (5), MTA Bridges and Tunnels (2), New York City Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Astoria, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Astoria. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Astoria
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 Astoria — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Astoria (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Astoria
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Astoria, NY
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Astoria, NY
What you can do in Astoria
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.
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Cameras near Astoria
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).