Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Harlem, New York
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around East Harlem — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Harlem, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East Harlem itself.
The rest sit in New York (10).
10 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (10). 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 Harlem in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in East Harlem
The readers mapped around East Harlem break down as 6 Ekin Box Spotter, 2 Ekin x spotter, 2 Mav (IQ:350XR). Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 2nd Avenue — 3 readers
- 1st Avenue — 1 reader
- East 116th Street — 1 reader
- Madison Avenue — 1 reader
- Park Avenue — 1 reader
- East 96th Street — 1 reader
- East 97th Street — 1 reader
- East 106th Street — 1 reader
East Harlem in the New York County picture
New York County has 299 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,444 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,627,788 residents and 135 road miles. By road density that is 2.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 0% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (10).
Camera activity around East Harlem, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for East Harlem. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching East Harlem
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 Harlem — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Harlem (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 Harlem
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 Harlem
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).