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Manhattan coke ring out of business after photos and videos of kingpins partying surface online

A massive and dangerous Manhattan coke ring that made millions delivering door-to-door coke for $120 a gram is now out of business — thanks in part to the gangsters’ own incriminating online boasting and photo-posting, officials said today.

The accused king- and queen-pins of the Lower East Side-based “Blocc Boyz” partied hard at a Queens strip joint — “Perfection,” near LaGuardia airport, where accused gangster Krista Zuniga danced — then posted photos of their cavorting onto Facebook and Instagram, officials alleged.

Other gangsters posted pictures and YouTube videos of themselves flashing gang signs and waving wads of cash, again making it easy for investigators to chart their affiliations and whereabouts, according to the indictments accusing 41 men and women of conspiracy and drug sales.

“Trappin all day everyday,” one of the gang’s alleged cash-flashing kingpins, Larry “Dido” Candido, labeled one such photo, according to the indictment.

And after Hurricane Sandy, the gang sent out a text blast to some of their hundreds of customers, according to a law enforcement source. The blast — which was easily intercepted by investigators — wished the customers well and assured them that the delivery service was still in business, the source said.

In later communications, the gangsters mused about pooling the federal Hurricane Sandy assistance checks they were expecting — due to property damage in several of their Lower East Side housing project apartments — and reinvesting it into the delivery business, the source said.

Investigators ran three wiretaps and under cover cops made some 75 cocaine buys beginning in 2011, and officials estimate that the gang made $2 million between that year and now.

“These are nasty guys making tons of money,” said the law enforcement source.

Arraignments of the defendants were expected to last throughout the day before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Laura Ward.

“This is a longterm operation that has made a tremendous amount of money in New York City, upstate New York, Westchester County and New Jersey,” assistant district attorney Michelle Warren told the judge as the first defendant to be arraigned, Michelle Cruz, 27, stood before the judge.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly are holding a press conference on the major takedown at 12:30 at One Police Plaza.