NEW YORK.- Several Dominican restaurants which since their debut in the area of Upper Manhattan’s Dyckman avenue attract thousands of patrons from the city, New Jersey and New England states are now under the target of neighbors and community activists who complain about the din from those businesses in the dawn hours.

Though the sector is one of Washington Heights’ quiets, next to the Seaman, Payton and Broadway avenues, the locals some of whom have been there for decades complain they cannot get accustomed to the current situation.

The Daily News Between reports that the Mamajuana Coffee, Sushi Restaurant Mama, Sole, Papasito Mexican Grill and Agave Bar are among the din makers.

But those businesses have revitalized the nightlife of a zone traditionally known as the city’s “raggers,” where cheap garment vendors, bodegas, fritter stands and 0.99 cent stores give it a life of its own.

The noisy eateries reflect a problem many Dominicans have to deal with in their hometowns, where the authorities often confiscate music equipment and chairs and tables in colmados and colmadones for excess noise.