These buccaneers are blasting more than just sea shanties.

The waters off the Bronx have become an aquatic disco, as so-called “party pirates” have been anchoring boats equipped with massive speaker systems near City Island and creating a din that is driving residents crazy.

Some locals say the tunes played by gigantic “churchero” speakers aboard the wild watercraft “can wake the dead” — as throngs of scantily clad women sometimes using a stripper pole and other revelers live it up onboard. 9

“We started noticing it about eight years ago, but it was a couple of knuckleheads having fun, the noise wasn’t nuts like it has become,” said John Sheridan, a nearly lifelong City Islander.

“Then COVID came along, and people started having fun on steroids on boats.”

The ruckus often ha

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