I'm not about the generalizations but this thread is hitting me because as I sit on my couch right now I can hear music blasting from someone's car right now at 10am.
Grew up in Brooklyn, specifically Prospect Heights, 22 years, never had this issue. Mixed population, primarily residential, older families.
Moved out of my parents at 22, found a nice, quiet, cheap studio in Kensington, right near Prospect Park and the train for my commute to work, about 5 years, never had this issue. Really residential and really white, but shyt was a dead zone.
Lived in Sunset Park up until last year, primarily Spanish, really residential, might hear a car blasting music as they drive every now and then, by but they usually didn't live in the neighborhood and it was shortlived. Most music issues came from our obnoxious Filipino neighbors that liked to do karaoke at random hours.
Bought a house in Jamaica, Queens last year, moved in February and it's the loudest, most obnoxious neighborhood I've lived in by a longshot. Solely black/Caribbean and residential. House parties every weekend, cars blasting music daily, every hour on the hour. House is by a shared drive and dudes just park inbetween blasting music, young or old, drinking, smoking. I've legit heard more 50 Cent in these 7 months than I've heard since dude firsr dropped. Last weekend the shyt was so loud I could feel the bass rattling my house from a car no less than 4 houses down the block at 1am.
Wife is 8 months pregnant and getting into it with clowns still living on 2005 with nothing to lose isn't where my head is at right now.
No reasoning with that shyt or trying to have a civil conversation with anyone that can't figure out that double parking in a residential area and blasting music at 1am is a dikk thing to do and we don't have any connections out here or support so it's just us. Never wanted to move to grimey ass Jamaica but the house was a steal even if we knew the neighborhood was gonna be some shyt. I love my people, esp my Caribbeans, but I'm not gonna raise kids out here in this shyt.