Flock & ALPR Cameras in Long Island City, New York
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Long Island City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Long Island City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Long Island City itself.
The rest sit in New York (21).
16 of them name an operator in the record: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (8), NYC Department of Transportation (5), New York City Police Department (3). 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 Long Island City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Long Island City
The readers mapped around Long Island City break down as 9 Redspeed Redcurb, 5 Leonardo, 3 Ekin Box Spotter. Named operators in the reports: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Queensboro Bridge (Upper Level) — 3 readers
- FDR Drive — 3 readers
- 1st Avenue — 3 readers
- York Avenue — 2 readers
- Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Lower Roadway — 2 readers
- Queensboro Bridge Outer Roadway — 2 readers
- Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Outer Roadway — 1 reader
- Vernon Boulevard — 1 reader
- East 62nd Street — 1 reader
- 50th Avenue — 1 reader
- 21st Street — 1 reader
- NY 25 — 1 reader
Long Island City 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 21 traffic. Operators named on the record: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (8), NYC Department of Transportation (5), New York City Police Department (3).
Camera activity around Long Island City, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Long Island City. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Long Island City
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 Long Island City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Long Island City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Long Island City
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What you can do in Long Island City
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 Long Island City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).