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Slum of Central Pk. South

Who knew slum-like conditions existed on Central Park South?

Marilyn Wolff, 82, says her multimillionaire landlord is letting her rent-controlled apartment rot away with waterlogged walls, cracked windows and cockroaches — all to get her to leave the building.

Wolff, who says she pays under $4,000 for a two-bed, two-bath overlooking Central Park, says she’s spent a fortune covering up the damp, grimy walls.

“[The apartment] has this Old World beauty, but it’s a mess,” said Wolff, a widow who’s battling ovarian cancer. “It’s like putting makeup on a pig. It’s still a pig.”

Her rundown home is inside the Berkeley House, a 23-story luxury condo where a three-bedroom is listed at $3.35 million and a two-bedroom rental goes for $14,000 a month.

Earlier this year, Hollywood producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall — who produced “The Sixth Sense” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” — sold their two-bedroom love nest in the building for $3.6 million.

Wolff’s family owned the prewar building and lived in their 17th-floor apartment for decades. She sold the property in the 1970s, and the new owner converted it into condominiums.

Before Berkeley House changed hands, she negotiated a lease to make sure she’d keep her home. But she’s been battling her landlord, Zohar Ben-Dov, who owns the shares to her unit, according to property records.

First she sued to stop him from evicting her bedridden mother in 1978. She sued again in 2007 because he allegedly overcharged her on rent, according to court documents.

Wolff claims Ben-Dov is trying to force her out by allowing “deplorable conditions” to continue.

Ben-Dov, who raises racehorses on a Virginia farm, did not respond to several messages left by The Post.

Buchbinder & Warren’s director of property management, Rosemary Paparo, said, “ The landlord and the management are promptly addressing [Wolff’s] concerns. That is all.”

According to the city’s rent-control guidelines, the landlord can raise the rent 7.5 percent annually.

Wolff’s apartment had a maximum collectible rent of $371.06 in 1972, papers from the Division of Housing and Community Renewal show. That means rent today would only be around $1,555 a month.

“For what I’m paying, it’s not even worth it,” Wolff said. “It’s a dump!”