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Brooklyn’s top judge headed to Tinseltown

Brooklyn has lost its top judge to Tinseltown.

Tough-as-nails Patricia DiMango will step down from her post as Brooklyn Supreme Court’s administrative judge for criminal matters to star in “Hot Bench,” a new CBS TV court show created by Judge Judy, the network announced Thursday.

DiMango, noted for her frank and witty quips from the bench, had just been promoted last month.

Her half-hour show will debut in September, and feature DiMango and two other judges hearing small-claims cases, CBS said.

DiMango’s brash personality often surfaced in court, whether she was badgering a defendant to take a plea deal or chastising a provocatively dressed teen.

DiMango blasted Chazmia Morrison, 17, for dressing like she was “going to a club” when the teen showed up in court on assault charges — and Morrison returned for her next appearance dressed in professional black trousers and a pleated white blouse.

“You look quite the lady,” ­DiMango said approvingly. “I want you dressing appropriately when you go to your job.”

DiMango let her anger ring out when truly evil defendants stood before her — like when she handed a 32-year sentence to Carlotta Brett-Pierce, who beat, drugged, and starved her defenseless 4-year-old daughter to death.

“What kind of person could do this to a child, let alone her own child?” thundered DiMango in 2012, adding that Brett-Pierce was a “self-centered, volatile and belligerent woman.”

DiMango went to The Bronx last year to successfully reduce a cripping backlog of cases.

Judy Sheindlin — of “Judge Judy” fame — got the idea for the show on a trip to Europe.

“When my husband, Jerry, and I were in Ireland recently, we visited the courts and watched a three-judge bench, which I found both fascinating and compelling,” Sheindlin said.