Flock & ALPR Cameras in Steinway, New York
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Steinway — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Steinway, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Steinway itself.
The rest sit in New York (9).
9 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (4), New York City Police Department (2), New York City Department of Transportation (1), Verra Mobility NYC DOT red light camera (1), Verra Mobility operated NYC DOT Red Light Camera (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 11 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 11 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Steinway
The readers mapped around Steinway break down as 4 Ekin Box Spotter, 2 Genetec, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department, New York City Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Astoria Boulevard North — 3 readers
- Astoria Boulevard South — 2 readers
- 19th Avenue — 1 reader
- 81st Street — 1 reader
- Brooklyn-Queens Expressway West — 1 reader
- Steinway Street — 1 reader
Steinway 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 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (4), New York City Police Department (2), New York City Department of Transportation (1).
Camera activity around Steinway, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Steinway. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Steinway
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 Steinway — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Steinway (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Steinway
What you can do in Steinway
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.
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Cameras near Steinway
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).