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This ain’t no lullaby.
A mysterious stream of ear-splitting music has been tormenting a sleepy New Jersey town for weeks — and some residents are convinced the sound is coming all the way from Manhattan, a mile away.
Cops in Edgewood say that Big Apple parties are blasting beats so deafening that they are traveling across the Hudson River and into the bedrooms of sleeping residents — but no one has been able to prove exactly where the sound is coming from.
“It’s obviously miserable, especially when you’re a parent and you have a kid and you’re working,” said Ben, who, despite living half a mile off Edgewater’s coastline, has been repeatedly woken up by the middle-of-the-night raves.
“It sounds like it was coming from a street over! I thought, ‘Oh, they must be people playing music in the parking lot of the nearby apartment building … When the police told me they’ve gotten 100 reports and it’s coming from New York, I was honestly flabbergasted. I couldn’t believe it because it sounded like it was coming from right outside my window.”
Neighbors first experienced the thunderous music on a Saturday night back in October, with residents telling The Post the music kicked off around 11:30 p.m. and lasted until 5 a.m.
The issue seemed to be a one-off — until it returned in February for four consecutive Saturday nights.
The noise raged on from 11:30 p.m. to 5 a.m., resulting in hundreds of complaints to Edgewater cops for “loud music coming from NYC,” the department said in a statement.
“It was so loud, it sounds like a concert outside. My husband even went outside because it was so loud but we couldn’t see anything,” said one neighbor, who declined to share her name.
“I’m exhausted. I’m pissed the next morning … I have two young kids, and I have a 6-month-old so I’m just exhausted.”
Edgewater cops told The Post that the NYPD tracked the noise down to Skinny’s Cantina on the Hudson in West Harlem, a Mexican nightclub directly across from the water from the New Jersey town.
The lounge, however, has been shut down since the New Year after it was sold to a new owner.
“There’s been zero activity there,” Joseph Licul, the prior owner of Skinny’s, told The Post.
The NYPD would also not confirm whether they had identified any other source of the noise despite claims by the Edgewater cops.
Exhausted Edgewater residents were relieved to enjoy a silent Saturday last week, but the breakdown in communication between the departments is leaving them with little hope that their peace will last.
“Every time I call [the NYPD], they’re like, ‘Okay, we’re going to go check it out,’ but they’re like they don’t sound too sure. It’s like the first time they’ve heard of this, right? They’re clueless,” one neighbor said.
“Between the Edgewater police and NYPD, no one’s doing anything about it.”
— Additional reporting by Mark Suleymanov
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