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Mark-Viverito got subsidized home although she was about to inherit fortune

The likely next speaker of the City Council knew she was about to inherit a windfall from her father’s estate before she bought a subsidized home reserved for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers, The Post has learned.

Melissa Mark-Viverito closed on the affordable-income town house in East Harlem in December 1998 — 11 months after her wealthy father’s will was filed, according to public records.

A year before closing on the three-family home on East 111th Street, Mark-Viverito signed documents confirming the $186 million sale of a Puerto Rico hospital in which her father had a stake.

Although her father’s estate wasn’t dispersed until several years later, he left behind holdings worth more than $6.7 million to Mark-Viverito and her relatives.

Despite knowing her bank account was poised to get plumper, Mark-Viverito used her fleeting eligibility to scoop up the home intended for average working Joes.

On an application filed with the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development in April 1997, Mark-Viverito listed her deputy director salary with the advocacy group Aspira as $50,000.

She listed $40,000 in additional assets and $10,500 in debt — largely from education loans.

She qualified because the income limits for purchasing the town house — at a subsidized cost of $240,000 — ranged from $30,000 to $70,000 at the time, according to a department spokesman.

The property has since skyrocketed in value to more than $1.2 million, according to city Department of Finance records.

Officials in Mark-Viverito’s camp noted that the distribution of her father’s estate didn’t happen until 2003. Even then, they said, there were tax payments and payments to creditors the family had to make.

In response to questions posed since Friday about Mark-Viverito’s current income, a spokesman said the council member would make her annual tax returns available in the near future.