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“Boardwalk Empire” is filming on a quiet Brooklyn block so much, it’s criminal.

Neighbors want to ban the Prohibition-era TV show from filming at a Vinegar Hill mansion, saying that more than 80 shoots in one year is enough.

“It’s a movie set,” said Helen Burguiere, 74. “The owner gets all this money, and we’re the ones who have to deal with the noise and the porta-potties.”

HBO has transformed the Commandant’s House into the home of Nucky Thompson, the Atlantic City gangster pol played by Steve Buscemi. The three-story manse on Evans Street, built in 1806, is a national historic landmark.

Mimi Hannon, 38, said production crews take precious parking spots, put porta-potties on the sidewalk and even left a forklift with the keys in the ignition.

Location manager Amanda Foley said, “I don’t think we overwhelm the neighborhood.”

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