She has a new lease — on life.
The little girl who was too scared to return to the run-down public-housing complex where she was stabbed by the “Brooklyn Ripper” landed in a safer, cleaner new apartment on Friday — with help from The Post.
Mikayla Capers, 7, jumped up and down with delight as her great-aunt and legal guardian, Brigitte Capers, 45, signed a lease for the four-bedroom apartment on a quiet block of Coney Island.
“Yay! I’ve got my own room! It’s great!” Mikayla said, shaking the keys to her new home on West 28th Street near Neptune Avenue.
“The view is good because you can see the ocean!”
On June 1, the third-grader was stabbed 16 times in an elevator at the Boulevard Houses in East New York. Her 6-year-old friend, P.J. Avitto, was hacked to death.
Daniel St. Hubert, 27, has been charged in the horrific attack.
Mikayla had refused to go near the building ever since.
But on Friday, she wore a big smile — and a T-shirt bearing the words “Drama Queen” — as she talked about her big plans for her new digs.
“I’m going to paint my wall pink. I’m going to have a big poster of Fresh Beat Band over my bed,” she said, referring to the Nickelodeon TV series.
“My dog’s bed is going to be right here, next to mine,” she said, adding her boom box will go by the window.
The gated Sea Park Apartments — across the street from a grassy playground — are far cry from the dilapidated Boulevard Houses.
After the stabbing, the family begged the city Housing Authority to move them from the crummy complex with broken doors to new Section 8 housing.
They got nowhere — until The Post ran a story Monday about their weeks-long struggle with the city.
Five days later, the agency got them the new apartment, Brigitte Capers said.
“I’m ready to move. It has been too long,” Capers said with a sigh of relief.
“I’m very happy. I feel like a big weight has been lifted off my shoulders now. ”
She said it puts her at ease to know there’s a 24-hour guard at the building, a surveillance camera and a gate.
The nearby Kaiser Park features swing sets, sports fields and monkey bars for Mikayla to play on, Capers said.
Getting away from the crime-plagued East New York neighborhood will “make it a little easier,” Capers said.
“I want to thank everyone who helped us getting here . . . We want to thank The Post,” she said.
“She has a long road ahead of her, but this is the start of a new beginning for her.”
“My focus now is getting her back into school mode.”
Capers said she had been hunting for a new place for months and had found her dream home in the Coney Island building in July.