Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Elmhurst, New York
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around East Elmhurst — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Elmhurst, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East Elmhurst itself.
The rest sit in New York (12).
9 of them name an operator in the record: New York City Police Department (4), Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey (2), Metropolitan Transit Authority (1), NYC Department of Transportation (1), NYPD (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 East Elmhurst in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in East Elmhurst
The readers mapped around East Elmhurst break down as 5 Leonardo, 3 Genetec, 2 Ekin x spotter. Named operators in the reports: New York City Police Department, Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey, NYPD, Metropolitan Transit Authority, NYC Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Flushing Bay Promenade — 2 readers
- Main Street — 2 readers
- 114th Street — 2 readers
- Terminal B Departures — 2 readers
- Ditmars Boulevard — 1 reader
- 94th Street — 1 reader
- Astoria Boulevard — 1 reader
- 124th Street — 1 reader
East Elmhurst 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 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: New York City Police Department (4), Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey (2), NYPD (1).
What’s watching East Elmhurst
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 East Elmhurst — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Elmhurst (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in East Elmhurst
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 East Elmhurst
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).