Hey, Asshole, Your Fucking Car Stereo Bumping Shitty Pop Music At 3 A.M. Is Topping The List Of Problems For New Yorkers

I suppose there are worse things to have happen, but hearing your fucking car stereo bumping shitty pop music at 3 a.m. is the city’s biggest annoyance:

Street noise is so out of control that frustrated and sleep-weary New Yorkers cite it as the Big Apple’s No. 1 problem, a new survey has found.

Horn-hunkers, blaring music, drunken rabble-rousers and other noise replaced potholes as the most vexing problem, according to the poll of 600 civic leaders conducted by Citizens for NYC/Baruch College.

Neighborhood activists ranked litter as the second worst problem, the same as last year.

“There’s too much noise and too much litter,” said Peter Kostmayer, president of Citizens for NYC.

Kostmayer said that if half the drivers who needlessly honk their horns stopped, neighborhoods would be significantly more peaceful.

“What we’re talking about is unnecessary noise,” he said.

He blamed selfish behavior of violators — not the lack of government enforcement of noise abatement and anti-littering laws — as the principal problem.

“I don’t think horn-honking is the mayor’s fault,” Kostmayer said.

Then again, it’s significant that we’re carping about your fucking car stereo bumping shitty pop music at 3 a.m. instead of, say, violent crime:

Kostmayer said the fact that New Yorkers are most worried about irritants like noise and filth is not so bad.

Violent crime, for example, is barely on the radar — ranking a lowly 24th.

And 47 percent of New Yorkers said their neighborhood had improved. Only 25 percent said they had worsened. The other 28 percent said the conditions were about the same.

That’s a significant improvement over last year, when 39 percent cited improvement and 32 said conditions had deteriorated. The rest said things were about the same.

“The city is doing well. The fact that we’re not talking about homicides, rapes and assaults says a lot,” Kostmayer said.