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Cocaine and heroin tossed out window and sent down drain during West Harlem drug bust

Kilos of coke and heroin went out the window and down the drain during a dramatic drug bust last month.

The arrest took place March 20 at 3333 Broadway, adjacent to Columbia University’s $6.2 billion West Harlem campus expansion, home to a mix of Section 8 subsidizers and gentrifiers, the latter paying up to $3,000 a month.

Chicago native Rudy Cabrera, 38, hurled a kilo of heroin out a 13th-floor living-room window as cops broke down the door, citywide special narcotics prosecutor Bridget Brennan said yesterday.

The drugs landed on a ventilation grate right below the window. More kilos were being flushed down the toilet and kitchen sink as the door went down, prosecutors said.

Cabrera pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court and was ordered held without bail on enough charges to keep him in prison for up to 24 years, a spokeswoman for Brennan said.

The apartment was a hotbed of drug and gun activity, according to court papers. Cabrera’s co-defendants and neighbors, Rafael Olivares, 55, and Juan Honorio, 49, sold six guns to undercover cops there, authorities said.