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Gentrification gone wild: Luxury building forklifts SUV off street

Here’s the shocking moment a construction crew hoisted a Williamsburg family’s SUV off the street to make room for work on a luxury building site.

Contractors for Two Trees Management used a forklift to uproot the 2004 Infiniti while working on the $2 billion redevelopment of the former Domino Sugar Refinery.

“You can’t just pick up somebody’s nice car and toss it wherever,” the family’s son, Henry Nahrwold, fumed to The Post.

The family, which has lived one block east of the historic Domino site for more than 30 years, found the SUV deposited on the curb Friday afternoon.

Henry’s father, Thomas Nahrwold, 61, had legally parked it in front of 27 South Third Street that morning.

“I thought my dad had parked it like that at first,” said Henry, 20. “But I thought it was pretty weird. Then I started to notice all the damages, and I freaked out. I was so pissed off.”

A local auto repairman estimated it would cost at least $2,600 to fix the damages, which included a disfigured bumper, smashed undercarriage and impaired steering alignment.

The family learned who was responsible only because a neighbor recorded the act on a cellphone.

“My dad was searching around trying to figure out what happened when someone came out of the building and said they had video of the forklifting,” recalled Henry, who works as a bartender in Brooklyn.

“It’s outrageous. They could have at least left a note saying, ‘Hey, we picked your car up because we didn’t know what the hell we were doing.’ ”

They had bought the car off Craigslist for $9,000 just four days earlier.

“It’s like a blatant f- -k you from them. I’m livid,” said mom Susan Pellegrino, 61, who has lived in the two-bedroom duplex on Wythe Avenue since 1985.

“They probably wanted to get one of their big rigs up the street and just moved it out of the way,” said Pellegrino, an actress.

The family said it was working with its insurance company to seek reimbursement for the damage.

Two Trees spokeswoman Nicole Kolinsky blamed Yonkers-based RNC Construction.

“We pride ourselves on being good neighbors and have reprimanded our subcontractor for this unacceptable behavior,” she said. “We have been assured that the subcontractor will fully pay for any damages.”

“It’s like a blatant f- -k you from them,” Susan Pellegrino said of the construction crew.Helayne Seidman

More cars could be seen up on the curb at the site last week, but it was unclear whether they were parked or moved there.

Two Trees bought the site for $185 million in 2012 after the prior owner, the Community Preservation Corp., defaulted on loans.

In April 2014, the City Council green-lit Two Trees’ proposal to build a 3-million-square-foot housing village with parks, offices, shops and apartment towers reaching 600 feet.

Jed and David Walentas, the father and son who run Two Trees, have been known to throw green at de Blasio.

In April 2015, Two Trees donated $100,000 to the mayor’s nonprofit Campaign for One New York. It then won high praise in a mayoral press release for creating affordable housing at the Domino site.