The city has recorded more than 440 complaints of drag racing since New York went into PAUSE on March 22nd, according to an analysis of 311 caller data.
That’s more than four times the number of complaints compared to the same time period last year, according to Patch, which first reported the uptick.
Of those complaints, the majority were callers reporting 123 incidents of drag racing in Manhattan, followed by 119 complaints in Queens and 104 complaints in Brooklyn. There were 47 callers reporting drag racing in the Bronx, and 20 in Staten Island.
There were an additional 35 complaints of racing on highways that were not linked to specific boroughs.
The Manhattan hotspot by far was one block of Fifth Avenue in Harlem between West 137th and East 138th, with 35 complaints made to 311 over the past three months.
The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday on how -- or even if -- they respond to 311 complaints of drag racing.
Another uptown hotspot includes a stretch of Tenth Avenue between West 204th and West 206th streets in Inwood, which had nine 311 complaints and another call for nearby Nagle Avenue and West 205th Street.
In Kensington, Ocean Parkway between Avenue C and Avenue N received ten complaints.
Astoria also had a hotspot on 20th Avenue around 31st to 33rd Street, with nine complaints to 311.
Avenue S in Midwood received six complaints around the area of MacDonald Avenue. In Greenpoint, Franklin Street between India and Java streets racked up seven complaints to 311.
On the Lower East Side, the area around Ludlow Street and Stanton Street received seven complaints.
The police have issued 70,456 summonses for speeding so far this year through the end of May, though that includes all speeding violations.
With David Cruz
