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A years-long feud between Brooklyn neighbors has sparked a crazy TikTok trend where strangers “harass” a short-fused family by simply idling cars in their driveway.
Hundreds of drivers intentionally block Frank Chen’s Bensonhurst property every week, looking to capture his visceral reaction in what antagonizers have dubbed a “NYC tourist attraction.”
The driveway dispute has led to dozens of viral videos of Chen sprinting out of his front door within seconds of the cars pulling up in front of the “no parking” signs he’s plastered across his fence — and spewing vitriol at the drivers.
The homeowner, 65, hurled profanities, honked and threatened to plow his car forward when The Post pulled up on his driveway Tuesday, after assuming the reporters were “TikTokkers.”
“I’m sick and tired of these TikTokkers,” Chen fumed, saying he needs 24/7 access because of his sick 94-year-old father who lives inside.
“I don’t know why the TikTok people came here to harass us. We don’t know each other. Why not leave us alone?”
The bizarre social media trend took off earlier this month after a man claiming to be their neighbor captured Chen and his daughter circling his car and ordering him to “move” away from their driveway.
The man, who did not respond to The Post’s request for comment, encouraged the video’s nearly 7 million viewers to put the family to the test — igniting dozens of copycat videos.
As many as 10 drivers show up daily, Chen says, including some middle-of-the-night hecklers who rev their engines to wake the family.
The Chens say the “harassment” has been going on since they moved into the house in 2021 and noticed that their driveway was a popular spot for their neighbors and delivery drivers to idle.
The family claims they were initially polite when asking them move, but were allegedly met with spitting, urinating on trees and even racist slurs from their neighbors that Chen’s daughter documented on a YouTube channel “Thou Shall Not Harass Thy Neighbor.”
“People think Asians are very quiet, that we don’t stand up for ourselves. But I was not raised that way,” Chen’s daughter, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post.
One next-door neighbor was captured by The Post screaming “ching chong” at the family before speeding off — a slur she says was “provoked” by the Chens’ aggressive behavior, which preceded the social media frenzy.
“They provoked me to say that because I couldn’t even let my mother out of my car,” said the neighbor, who asked only to be referred to as Snow, alleging that the Chens followed her even after she pulled out of their driveway.
“Everybody stands behind me. Everybody has said racist s–t towards them but it’s because they provoke. Me saying that wasn’t towards the Asian community, it was just towards that b–tch.”
Snow admitted that it “probably wasn’t right” to hurl the ethnic slur at the Chens, but “I hate her.”
The Chens have been “nuisances” towards neighbors for five years and don’t even allow elderly pedestrians to rest beneath the sidewalk tree in front of their home, Snow says.
And the family has even become physical at times, with one member of the clan allegedly grabbing Snow’s friend through his car window.
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“Everyone’s suffering because of their mental problem, and that’s not fair to everybody else,” the neighbor said.
“If they have such a problem with property, they could simply go live on a farm and live in peace if they don’t like people that much. Why they would choose the city is beyond me.”
Neighbors have filed multiple 311 complaints claiming the Chens have an illegal driveway and have unpermitted construction going on in the home. The city Department of Buildings says it is sending inspectors in the coming days to investigate both claims, though city records show the property has a legal driveway.
Meanwhile, the NYPD has taken at least a dozen complaints from the Chens for harassment, all of which have been closed after probing, according to sources.
Police told The Post they are in “contact with the residents and working with them to resolve this matter.”
Cops advised the Chens to tone down their eruptions at idlers, but Chen admits he cannot always control himself.
“Why are you doing this? Does this make your life better to harass people? Stop coming here to harass us,” Chen implored the social media wannabes.
“We are not going to move. This is my house. Don’t block my driveway.”
