The little girl who was stabbed by the “Brooklyn Ripper” and watched him murder her best friend is being traumatized again — by the city, her family told The Post.
Mikayla Capers, 7, is too scared to return to her public-housing apartment building, and the city is dragging its feet finding her a new home, kin said.
“We’re still in limbo,” said the girl’s worried great-aunt and legal guardian, Brigitte Capers, 45, who said she has asked the city to relocate the financially strapped family since the June 1 horror, but gotten a runaround.
“She has to be settled before school starts.”.
The third-grader suffered 16 stab wounds and saw her 6-year-old pal, P.J. Avitto, hacked to death inside an elevator at the New York City Housing Authority Boulevard Houses in the East New York section.
The kids were on their way to get ice cream in P.J.’s building — which Mikayla lived next to — when Daniel St. Hubert boarded the elevator and allegedly attacked them both.
Since then, Mikayla has refused to go anywhere near the place, staying with her great-grandmother, Regenia Trevathan, in Queens instead.
The child has her heart set on moving away from the horrific memories.
“I want my own room!” the plucky tyke, who has visible scars on her tiny chest, said last week. She’s also hoping to get a puppy.
“I want a white poodle because they are cute and fluffy and you can put a bow in her hair,” Mikayla said.
“I am going to call her Snow Glow.”
Capers said the New York City Housing Authority gave her a list of apartments to choose from, but most were still in the worst parts of their crime-riddled neighborhood.
In early July, Capers said, she found their dream home — a four-bedroom apartment on West 28th Street in Coney Island, which she chose because it had security cameras.
She said the city assured her that Mikayla would be bused to the same UFT K359 Charter School that she attended during the past year.
By mid-month, Capers said, she signed paperwork with the Progressive Management Corp., which owns the Section 8 building, and was promosed the apartment was hers.
Capers said she worked through NYCHA, which administers the feds’ Section 8 program.
But on Aug. 11, Capers said, she was told that her application had to be resubmitted — although she wasn’t given a reason why.
Sharon Smith, president of Progressive, said that Capers’ application is in its “final stages” but that the agency needs various tax and employment records to complete the process.
“Hopefully, with strong effort by parties, we can have family moved in by the start of the school year,” Smith said. “Unfortunately, we need certain documentation before we can put a bow on it and give them the keys.”
Capers insisted that all the information is already on her application and can be easily verified by the management company.
NYCHA declined to comment, citing privacy issues.
Additional reporting by Lia Eustachewich and Bruce Golding