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Hip to be square

CROWD CONTROL: Mobs of young party people — and a stark spike in drug activity — are infuriating residents of Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Brooklyn. (Ben Parker)

Brooklyn hipsters are apparently partying a little too hard these days.

Local officials in trendy Williamsburg and Greenpoint are pushing for a ban on new bars in their neighborhoods to combat wild partying — as heroin and dope busts in the area soar.

“When you have a neighborhood that is improving, people are vocal [about their concerns], and that’s what we need to help us,” said NYPD Deputy Inspector Frank Cangiarella, commanding officer of the Brooklyn North Narcotics Bureau.

Drug arrests in the 94th Precinct, which covers Greenpoint and Williamsburg’s north side — ground zero for the city’s hipster community — have jumped 33 percent so far this year compared to the same time period last year, police statistics show. Most of the 51 drug busts were for heroin and marijuana.

The arrests were made mainly along the busy commercial strip of Manhattan Avenue from Greenpoint Avenue to Clay Street in Greenpoint. They involved both men and women from their 20s to their 50s who live or used to live in the area, police said.

“These are mostly user-type people, not organized distributors,” Cangiarella said.

But “even though it’s a small number, if the community is upset about it, we respond to the community complaints because it’s important to them,” he said.

Overall, crime in the 94th Precinct is down 10 percent, the stats show.

Alex Christod, 30, a local motorcycle mechanic, insisted of his home turf: “It’s no different drugwise than it was three years ago.”

“There seems to be a police crackdown because this is turning into a different kind of area — wealthier people are moving in.”

The ever-changing face of the neighborhoods also may be what’s prompting the Public Safety Committee of Community Board 1, which covers Greenpoint and Williamsburg, to propose a moratorium on new liquor licenses in their area, given the rowdy reps of some existing establishments.

The board is slated to vote on the issue Thursday. The panel does not issue liquor licenses — that’s the job of the State Liquor Authority — but it can offer recommendations.

Still, some see the move as draconian.

“As long as you respect the community, you should be able to open up a venue,” said Aaron Piece, owner of the Trash Bar, on Grand Street in Williamsburg.

“People know what they’re in for when they move here. It’s so expensive to live here that if you made that leap, you’ve done your homework, so you know what it’s like.”

john.doyle@nypost.com