Metro

Chris is doing herself a favor

It’s the “Gropez Line” — a tiny, newly altered boundary in the City Council district map that helps lecherous Assemblyman Vito Lopez but also brings potential political benefits for Christine Quinn.

Letting the controversial redistricting plan fly through the council next month — as sources say Quinn (inset) is expected to do — could help her run for mayor next year by delivering her Hispanic votes in Brooklyn.

That’s because the line is the brainchild of a Lopez ally, Brooklyn Councilman Erik Dilan, inside sources say. He is a favorite among Hispanic voters and could become a useful ally to Quinn during the mayoral campaign and beyond.

The perceived quid pro quo between Quinn — a staunch advocate of women’s rights — and Lopez, whom she has called on to resign following accusations he harassed female staffers, did not pass the smell test for good-government advocates.

Susan Lerner of Common Cause bashed the entire redistricting process.

“It’s doubly troubling when you have somebody that’s under the kind of investigation that Vito Lopez is under. Doing favors for somebody under this kind of cloud is doubly objectionable,” Lerner said.

Dilan acknowledged yesterday that the boundary change would help Lopez but declined to talk about Quinn and claimed he couldn’t remember if he requested it.

“It’s less about Vito, because no one’s going to want his endorsement,” one source said, adding that Quinn was “doing a favor for Dilan and using that as some leverage with Hispanics” in Brooklyn.