Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sunnyside, New York
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Sunnyside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sunnyside, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sunnyside itself.
The rest sit in New York (11).
11 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (8), New York City Police Department (2), New York City Department of environmental protection (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 Sunnyside in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sunnyside
The readers mapped around Sunnyside break down as 8 Ekin Box Spotter, 2 Genetec, 1 soundvue noise camera. Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department, New York City Department of environmental protection. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Queens Boulevard — 2 readers
- Borden Avenue — 2 readers
- 53rd Avenue — 1 reader
- 47th Street — 1 reader
- Skillman Avenue — 1 reader
- 43rd Avenue — 1 reader
- 34th Street — 1 reader
- Boundary Avenue — 1 reader
- Greenpoint Avenue — 1 reader
Sunnyside 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 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: NYC Department of Transportation (8), New York City Police Department (2), New York City Department of environmental protection (1).
What’s watching Sunnyside
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 Sunnyside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sunnyside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sunnyside
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 Sunnyside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).