Flock & ALPR Cameras in Woodhaven, New York
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Woodhaven — 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 Woodhaven, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Woodhaven itself.
The rest sit in New York (9).
9 of them name an operator in the record: NYC Department of Transportation (8), New York City Department of Transportation (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 7 Ekin Box Spotter camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Ekin Box Spotter camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Woodhaven
The readers mapped around Woodhaven break down as 8 Ekin Box Spotter, 1 Mav (IQ:350XR). Named operators in the reports: NYC Department of Transportation, New York City Department of Transportation. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Woodhaven Boulevard — 3 readers
- Myrtle Avenue — 2 readers
- Jamaica Avenue — 2 readers
- Atlantic Avenue — 2 readers
Woodhaven 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 (6), New York City Department of Transportation (1).
Camera activity around Woodhaven, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Woodhaven. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Woodhaven
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 Woodhaven — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Woodhaven (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Woodhaven
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Woodhaven, NY
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Woodhaven, NY
What you can do in Woodhaven
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 Woodhaven
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).