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Instagram account exposes crumbling ‘Brokelyn’ College

Even the iconic clock tower has stopped working at Brooklyn College.

Fed-up students have now taken to social media to post photos of their crumbling campus and plead for help.

Signs placed around the school ask students to submit photos of things that are “broken or falling apart” to an Instagram page called @cuny_brokelyn_college along with the hashtag #thankyoucuomo.

The 26-acre Brooklyn College campus in Midwood, with its broad lawns and Georgian buildings, gets high marks for its beauty, once even landing the No. 1 spot in a college guidebook for the most beautiful in the country.

But that beauty appears to be only brick-deep.

In just a month, nearly 90 photos have been posted to the Instagram page showing broken floor tiles, leaky ceilings, broken elevators, a cockroach in the library, and ants crawling on garbage in a cafeteria.

An entire section of chairs is roped off in one classroom because of leaks and a trash can is perched on top of them to catch the water.

There are many photos of busted bathrooms showing an array of toilets and urinals covered in plastic, broken soap and paper towel dispensers and even a video of a continuously flushing toilet.

Six stalls in one women’s room had “out of order” signs in one photo with a caption noting that only two toilets actually worked.

The iconic clock at the school, which is part of the City University of New York, hasn’t kept time in months.

The Instagram posts poke Cuomo and beg #fundcuny.

“I want as many people as possible to be able to see this issue at Brooklyn College,” said Andrea Di Salvio, 20, a sophomore from Brooklyn who created the page. “I hope that enough people see it and get upset/shocked and ask the question, ‘Why isn’t CUNY being funded?’ and demand permanent action be taken to fund the school, not just a temporary cover-up of everything that is broken.”

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Di Salvio said she’s been getting three to five photos a day.

Corrinne Greene, 21, a theater major from Buffalo, said the college had to rent space off-campus for performances and that music students played in gymnasiums.

A new performing arts center that was slated to be ready by 2014 is still not open.

“I truly believe that nothing is going to change until we get better funding from the state,” Greene said.

A college spokesman said more than $186 million in construction work was taking place at the campus, a restoration was planned for the clock and that the school “will continue to work with elected officials at the city and state level so that Brooklyn College has the resources to make the necessary upgrades to keep our facilities in a state of good repair.”

Gov. Cuomo’s proposed 2019 budget increases funding for CUNY’s four-year colleges by about 3 percent.

Greene noted that Cuomo had Sen. Bernie Sanders join him last year when he unveiled his Excelsior scholarship program for SUNY and CUNY students. Sanders spent a year at Brooklyn College and was its graduation speaker last year.

“He’s letting the institution that Bernie Sanders actually attended literally crumble,” she said. “That’s incredibly insulting.”