#NYC firework complaints light up 311 at a shocking rate

Roman candles aren’t the only thing soaring in this city.

Complaints of skyrockets are, well, skyrocketing to absurd heights this month, city data showed on Monday, as Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ advice to confront pyrotechnic punks rather than call 911 or 311 fell on deafened ears.

An astounding 8,967 complaints of illegal fireworks were reported to the city’s 311 system from June 1 through Sunday — more than 320 times the 28 gripes logged in the same period last year.

Saturday alone saw 2,092 such complaints light up the system — giving The City That Never Sleeps a perfectly valid excuse.

The three ZIP codes logging the most complaints during the period were all in central Brooklyn, according to the publicly available data.

Flatbush’s 11226 ZIP code saw 871 complaints — more than double any other area — followed by 336 from Prospect Lefferts Gardens’ 11225 and 282 from Crown Heights’ 11238.

Adams, a former NYPD cop, urged constituents at a Sunday press briefing to defuse fireworks situations themselves by talking to neighbors rather than dialing 911 or 311 and introducing “heavy-handed policing.”

But shell-shocked Brooklynites blasted the suggestion as a dud on Monday.

“It’s not like hearing gunshots, thank God, but it is a public nuisance, and it is dangerous,” said Winston Powell, 45, of Flatbush.

“There’s a reason they’re illegal. And illegal in my book is something that police handle, not civilians. Does [Adams] expect me to patrol my street at 2 in the morning to tell my neighbors to stop setting off fireworks?”

Such a step, Powell said, could spark a far larger powder keg.

“This isn’t the safest neighborhood to begin with, and I don’t feel comfortable telling people what to do,” he said. “How do I know one of them won’t pull a gun on me and tell me to piss off or they’ll blow my brains out?”

Farah Salomon, 29, also of Flatbush, said Adams’ advice might fly elsewhere, but not in the gritty city.

“I don’t think that’s the best idea. This is Brooklyn, not Topeka,” Salomon said.

“If you have a neighbor who’s setting off fireworks off their roof and you’re comfortable asking them to stop, go ahead,” Salomon said.

“But we’re not such a tight-knit community that I would feel comfortable walking around a park at night telling kids to stop setting off fireworks.”

Adams held firm on Monday, but noted that cops could be part of the solution by cutting off the pyrotechnics pipeline.

“The uptick in fireworks complaints throughout Brooklyn are disturbing to me, which is why I called for the city to invest in credible messengers like anti-violence groups . . . rather than taking a punitive approach,” Adams said in a statement.

“Law enforcement’s role is to find where these incendiary devices are coming from.”