Illegal NYC car meetups feature strippers, drugs and ear-splitting speaker systems driving residents nuts

They’ve heard just about enough of this.Ear-splitting, high-decibel street parties fueled by cars with booming sound systems are making life hell for residents from the Bronx to Brooklyn — as the massive automotive meetups are becoming an ever-more frequent nuisance.The unregulated revelries are often louder than planes landing at LaGuardia and feature drugs, booze, strippers and wet t-shirt contests, all within earshot of neighborhoods such as Maspeth in Queens, Greenpoint in Brooklyn and Throggs Neck in the Bronx, residents said.“It sounds like a missile being launched at your home from all directions,” said Astoria resident Jay Cane, 40.“You know it will be a long night when the windows are vibrating.“You shut your windows and turn on air conditioners and fans to drown out the noise, even in the winter,” the frustrated local said.The events, which got their start during the COVID-19 pandemic, often last all hours of the night, as sounds blast from gigantic car-mounted speakers referred to as “kitipo” systems.Residents tormented by the noise of the illicit meetups — which can feature dozens of cars paying to participate — said the city and cops are having little luck cracking down on them.“There’s a sense we’re being forgotten by the city because we have exhausted all the options it has provided, and we’re losing hope,” Cane said.John DiMario, co-owner of Village Chapels funeral home in Middle Village, said the ruckuscould wake the dead.“It booms off every surface in my house,” said DiMario, who lives in Maspeth.

“It’s been goingon for so long, and lately, it’s starting earlier.”Alfredo Centola, co-founder of the nonprofit We Love Whitestone, said he and his family deal several times a week with intrusive noise from unlawful rendezvous in Willets Point and World’s Fair Marina in Queens, as well as Ferry Point in The Bronx.“It’s a constant and consistent boom, boom, boom overnight,” said Centola, 54.“It’s th...