Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elmhurst, New York
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around 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 Elmhurst, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Elmhurst itself.
The rest sit in New York (12).
10 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (5), New York City Police Department (2), NYC D.O.T (1), New York City Department of Transportation (1), New York Police Department (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 25 Ekin Box Spotter camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Ekin Box Spotter camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Elmhurst
The readers mapped around Elmhurst break down as 6 Ekin Box Spotter, 3 Genetec, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department, NYC D.O.T, New York Police Department, New York City Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Queens Boulevard — 3 readers
- Long Island Expressway — 1 reader
- 57th Avenue — 1 reader
- Calamus Avenue — 1 reader
- 51st Avenue — 1 reader
- Hoffman Drive — 1 reader
- Broadway — 1 reader
- 80th Street — 1 reader
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 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (4), New York City Police Department (2), NYC D.O.T (1).
What’s watching 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 Elmhurst — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to 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 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 Elmhurst
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).