New York, NY – An NYPD anti-noise crackdown in heavily trafficked neighborhoods has resulted in thousands of tickets issued to music-blaring nightclubs, drunken pub-crawlers, horn-honking motorists and illegal parkers, The Post has learned.
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Topping the target list for Operation Silent Night is a section in upper Manhattan's Hamilton Heights, which has been blitzed with at least 56,000 tickets and about 3,500 busts in four years.
Hot on its heels is Inwood, where cops have written more than 41,000 summonses and made about 6,200 arrests.
Third is Washington Heights, with about 41,000 summonses and about 3,000 arrests.
Since the initiative's inception, cops have issued more than 385,000 tickets – mostly for such infractions as illegally parked cars (190,000), driving violations such as running red lights (107,000) and for urinating or drinking in public (79,000). [NY Post]