City probes ‘Gowanus crash’ trash company

City officials are investigating the problem-plagued New Jersey trash-hauling company whose truck lost a tire during a deadly mishap on a Brooklyn highway earlier this month, The Post has learned.

The city Business Integrity Commission, which licenses and regulates private sanitation companies, is conducting an “active in- vestigation” of Century Waste Services, spokesman Salvador Arrona said. He declined to elaborate.

On Aug. 1, a Century truck was heading eastbound on the Gowanus Expressway when its rear-most, passenger-side tire flew off and over the center median, smashing through the windshield of a westbound SUV driven by Robert Martinez, 64, of Staten Island.

Martinez, who was in his way to work as an NYPD civilian steamfitter, was hit in the head by the tire and pronounced dead at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.

Century has a checkered record that includes 74 federal safety violations since 2016, including a citation earlier this year for “loose and/or missing” wheel fasteners.

The company is also under investigation by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey into how it scored $2.7 million worth of contracts since 2014.

Century owner Marc Savino’s father and uncle were banned from the city’s carting industry in 1998 for employing a reputed associate of the Gambino organized-crime family, Vito Pesce, as their director of operations.

Pesce admitted during testimony that he “had a close relationship” with reputed Gambino member Joseph C. Gallo, according to BIC.

Gallo’s late father, Joseph N. Gallo, was once the Gambino family’s consigliere.

Century spokesman Ara Chekmayan said the company had hired outside experts “to analyze each vehicle and advise as to any and all safety concerns.”