While images of demonstrations and the lingering pandemic fill the city, a new soundtrack plays overhead as illegal fireworks are set off night after night.

For some New Yorkers, the fireworks serve as a release after months of quarantine. For others, they are a celebration of the strides made during protests against racial injustice.

But not everyone is enamored by the nightly pyrotechnics. The city's 311 system received over 1,700 complaints about fireworks in the first half of June. That's 80 times as many as there was the same period last year. The most complaints come from Flatbush.

So far this year, the NYPD says it has issued numerous fireworks-related summonses, made more than two dozen seizures of fireworks and arrested more than half a dozen people. There also have been nearly 6,000 firework-related 911 calls.