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Homeless cleared out for mayor’s B’klyn subway stunt

can challenger, Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, blasted the crackdown.

“For someone who claims to care about the most poor New Yorkers, to have someone clear his path when he’s about to board the subway . . . tells you all you need to know about Mayor de Blasio,” she said.

“These are fellow New Yorkers who are sleeping in the street, sleeping in the subway. The mayor just doesn’t care.”

Gene Russianoff, of the Straphangers Campaign advocacy group, also blasted the move.

“The optics are terrible,” he said. “It looks like they don’t want them to intrude on a movie set.”

A City Hall spokesman denied that any homeless people had been kicked out of the stations.

“These sources are refusing to provide their names because what they are saying is not true,” the spokesman said.

And de Blasio press secretary Eric Phillips noted that “the mayor had a few-minute chat with a homeless person” upon emerging from the subway.

It was not clear whether the man, who complained to Hizzoner over conditions in the city’s shelters, had been booted from the station.

De Blasio’s F-train foray came as he has been locked in an escalating feud with Gov. Cuomo over funding for the crumbling mass transit system.

Following a trip in a motorcade of SUVs from Gracie Mansion for a workout at the Prospect Park YMCA, the mayor used a MetroCard to swipe himself and First Lady Chirlane McCray through a turnstile at the Fourth AvenueNinth Street station.

Once aboard, Hizzoner — accompanied by a pack of journalists — launched into a diatribe against Cuomo and MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who last week blamed de Blasio for refusing to spend the city’s $4 billion-plus budget surplus to fix the subways.

“Here’s the truth: They’re not even spending their capital budget,” the mayor said. “There’s a huge amount of money sitting there, including the money the city gave. We gave them $2.5 billion a couple of years ago. Almost 90 percent of that money is just sitting there.”

De Blasio vowed not to allocate any more funds, saying the state “has used the MTA as a piggy bank” by taking “almost half a billion dollars in money out of the MTA to use for the state budget.

“The governor and Chairman Lhota simply need to get in front of everyone [and] say, ‘We’re fully responsible, we have to fix the problem.’ They have the resources.”

Lhota called the mayor’s remarks “completely disingenuous” given the planned release of the chairman’s “30-day overhaul plan” for the subways this week.

“What we need is leadership, not photo ops,” Lhota said.

Cuomo’s office didn’t return a request for comment.