Great news from Brooklyn: Disgraced political boss Vito Lopez likely won’t be able to grope his way to a City Council seat.
Not for lack of trying.
The 14-term assemblyman had his eyes on a council district a few blocks west of his Bushwick home when — presto, change-o — a city panel redrew the maps and moved Vito’s house right into the politically favorable district he craved.
In this town, that’s just the Brooklyn Way: Vito Lopez, a serial sexual harasser, is used to getting what he wants.
But The Post’s Sally Goldenberg lifted the veil off the plan — and these pages called on Council Speaker Chris Quinn to block the maneuver.
After hemming and hawing for a week, Quinn finally appears ready to act.
“Speaker Quinn is actively exploring ways to fix the Vito problem,” a source told Post City Hall Bureau Chief David Seifman.
Good for her.
She appointed one-third of the redistricting panel that draws the council maps, and has to give her approval for the new district lines — so she has the final say here.
And it’s an easy choice, really.
An ethical miasma follows Vito no matter where he goes, so he needs to be kept as far away from public office as possible.
His closest crony and long-time aide pleaded guilty this month to lying to federal investigators about her massive salary at a “nonprofit” Vito founded.
And Vito himself was censured by the Assembly this summer for harassing four female employees.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver hushed two of Vito’s accusers using taxpayer funds — in secret, no less.
These escapades cost Vito his throne as Brooklyn’s Democratic boss — but he has made no secret of his wish to vault from the Assembly to the council next year.
Quinn said she’ll do everything in her power to keep him off the council; un-jiggering the district lines in question would be a good start.
Three decades of Vito Lopez is enough.