Flock & ALPR Cameras in Melrose, New York
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Melrose — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Melrose, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Melrose itself.
The rest sit in New York (16).
15 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (8), New York City Police Department (5), 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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No new reports near Melrose in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Melrose
The readers mapped around Melrose break down as 8 Ekin Box Spotter, 4 Leonardo, 3 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department, New York Police Department, New York City Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Grand Concourse — 6 readers
- Macombs Dam Bridge — 2 readers
- East 161st Street — 2 readers
- Saint Ann's Avenue — 1 reader
- Brook Avenue — 1 reader
- Bergen Avenue — 1 reader
- Third Avenue — 1 reader
- Jerome Avenue — 1 reader
- East 158th Street — 1 reader
Melrose in the Bronx County picture
Bronx County has 121 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,831 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,419,250 residents and 253 road miles. By road density that is 0.48 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (8), New York City Police Department (5), New York Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Melrose, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Melrose. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Melrose
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 Melrose — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Melrose (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Melrose
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 Melrose
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).