Fireworks show torments Brooklyn as protesters demand City Hall crackdown
Someone set off an elaborate late-night fireworks show on a Brooklyn street — just as scores of drivers fed up with the illegal pyrotechnics honked their horns outside Gracie Mansion to disrupt Mayor Bill de Blasio’s slumber, dramatic video posted to Twitter shows.
The video, tweeted by Masha Protasova around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday and taken at Midwood Street and Kingston Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, shows multi-colored fireworks shooting high above the rooftops, with loud bangs and pops.
“You f—ing kidding me,” Protasova wrote.
It was not immediately clear where the video was taken, or whether police took any enforcement action.
Meanwhile, protesters idled in their cars near Hizzoner’s Upper East Side residence, many blaring their horns for at least a minute straight.
“We need to send a message that we need to end these chaotic fireworks that [have] been happening across the city,” City Councilman Chaim Deutsch, who attended the protest, said in a video statement posted to his Twitter account. “So if we can’t sleep, Mr. Mayor, you won’t sleep.”
Deafened city dwellers have lodged 8,967 complaints of illegal fireworks so far this month in the Big Apple — more than 320 times the 28 gripes logged in the same period last year.
