Flock & ALPR Cameras in Upper West Side, New York
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Upper West Side — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Upper West Side, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Upper West Side itself.
The rest sit in New York (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Upper West Side in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Upper West Side
The readers mapped around Upper West Side break down as 1 of unrecorded make. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- New York — 1 reader
Upper West Side in the New York County picture
New York County has 299 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,444 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,627,788 residents and 135 road miles. By road density that is 2.21 cameras per road mile, in the top 0% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
Camera activity around Upper West Side, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Upper West Side. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Upper West Side
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 Upper West Side — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Upper West Side (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Upper West Side
What you can do in Upper West Side
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 Upper West Side
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).