It’s the Summer of Hell on the Lower East Side.
Revelers are taking it to the next level in the disorderly district known as Hell Square, where residents have long been tortured by the noise from jammed restaurants, bars and clubs.
Now the party has moved to the streets, complete with DJs, speakers and out-of-control crowds. There are open-air drug sales and use, brazen muggings, and cars roaming with bass-boosted speakers.
Late-night partying has also plagued Washington Square Park in recent weeks, many times descending into violence.
In Hell Square, which is bounded by East Houston, Allen, Delancey and Essex streets — and where the state has issued more than 100 liquor licenses — it is the local residents who feel like they’re being pummeled.
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