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Brooklyn cat-abuse rap

A Brooklyn couple became the first New Yorkers to be indicted under the state’s animal-hoarding law after turning their Williamsburg loft into a hellhole for almost 100 cats, authorities said.

Investigators were called to an address on Metropolitan Avenue July 9 after five of the cats — two of them blind — fell through rotting third-story floorboards.

Michael Fiore, 51, who leased the loft with his wife, Hazel, 57, was charged under a 2006 state law that forbids “torturing and injuring animals.” He admitted he didn’t properly care for the cats, and faces up to two years in jail; his wife faces one year.