Hardcore punk band from formed in 1987 in the lower east side of New York City Public Nuisance helped create the New York Hardcore Drunk Punk scene by helping organize and participating in the Squat or Rot benefit shows and organizing the notorious annual Beer Olympics punk rock music festival every year at the end of the summer. Crooked Edge hardcore punk is what they described themselves as.

For the band from the 60s, see Public Nuisance.