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Single mom dockworker reinstated after mobster boast

It’s not your father’s waterfront anymore.

A Manhattan judge reinstated a gutsy female dockworker, who was ousted from her job for bragging about ties to a powerful mobster– a move she said she used to keep rampant sexual harassment at bay.

“Margaret Dillin may have been feisty and provocative and even unpleasant in maintaining a presence in this man’s world on the docks,” Justice Alice Schlesinger wrote in a decision to reinstate the longshorewoman.

“But it seems to be the consensus that she worked hard, refrained from committing any actual criminal conduct, and did her best as a single mother to raise two daughters.”

Dillin, who worked the New Jersey docks, sued earlier this year after the Waterfront Commission pulled her union papers in December 2012, claiming she was a danger to “public peace or safety” because she attended a wine tasting and Christmas party hosted by fallen Genovese kingpin Nicholas Furina.

But Dillin testified she was invited to the soirees by her boss, Furina’s son, and never actually met the mafia don.

The tall blonde explained to her union supervisor that she only bragged about knowing Furina “to get the men to leave her alone,” on the docks where only 10 percent of workers are women.

She claimed in her lawsuit that “male coworkers typically used vulgar and anti-female language in her presence, displayed pornographic/objectionable material and urinated in her presences.” But the Waterfront Commission and the union “virtually ignored” her complaints until she filed a grievance with the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission and received a settlement.

Still the harassment continued, Dillin said.

In her decision, made public yesterday, Judge Schlesinger called the “bragging about her feigned contacts…unfortunate,” but added that the behavior is “certainly not grounds for taking away her livelihood and pension.”

The Waterfront Commission did not immediately return calls for comment.