Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cambria Heights, New York
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Cambria Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cambria Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cambria Heights itself.
The rest sit in New York (6), Elmont (2), North Valley Stream (1).
6 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (5), New York City Department of Transportation (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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No new reports near Cambria Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cambria Heights
The readers mapped around Cambria Heights break down as 6 Ekin Box Spotter, 2 Leonardo, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Linden Boulevard — 3 readers
- Farmers Boulevard — 2 readers
- Francis Lewis Boulevard — 1 reader
- Springfield Boulevard — 1 reader
- Elmont Road — 1 reader
- 118th Avenue — 1 reader
Cambria Heights in the Nassau County picture
Nassau County has 331 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,226 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,388,138 residents and 3,157 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (5), New York City Department of Transportation (1).
What’s watching Cambria Heights
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 Cambria Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cambria Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cambria Heights
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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Cambria Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).