Flock & ALPR Cameras in Howard Beach, New York
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Howard Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Howard Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Howard Beach itself.
The rest sit in New York (8).
8 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (5), NYC D.O.T (1), New York City Department of Transportation (1), New York City 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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No new reports near Howard Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Howard Beach
The readers mapped around Howard Beach break down as 7 Ekin Box Spotter, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, NYC D.O.T, New York City Police Department, New York City Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Cross Bay Boulevard — 5 readers
- Jamaica Bay Greenway — 1 reader
- North Conduit Avenue — 1 reader
- 157th Avenue — 1 reader
Howard Beach 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 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (5), NYC D.O.T (1), New York City Police Department (1).
What’s watching Howard Beach
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 Howard Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Howard Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Howard Beach
What you can do in Howard Beach
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 Howard Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).