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WeWork’s recently announced layoffs will slam more than 400 New Yorkers, according to a recent government filing.

The bulk of the pink slips — which WeWork says will hit Feb. 21 and March 2 of next year — will affect employees at the office-sharing startup’s offices at 85 Broad St., a Financial District high-rise formerly occupied by Goldman Sachs.

A bloodbath in those offices will claim 250 workers, while another 164 layoffs are spread out over 14 other New York City locations, including 71 people at 1619 Broadway.

In total, 414 employees will be axed from more than 900 WeWork’s facilities across New York. In addition, 262 employees will receive offers for transitional positions at third-party vendors, according to a Tuesday filing with the state.

WeWork last month announced that it would be laying off 2,400 employees as a result of a disastrous turn of events that began with the company’s decision to go public and ended with CEO Adam Neumann getting a $1.7 billion golden parachute.

Early last month, a group of more than 150 workers at the office subleasing company asked in a letter for “fair and reasonable separation terms.”

Pointing to Neumann’s 10-figure payday and $46 million annual “consulting fee,” the letter cast employee demands as reasonable by comparison.

“We are not asking for this level of graft,” the letter said. “We are not the Adam Neumanns of this world — we are a diverse workforce with rents to pay, households to support and children to raise.”

WeWork declined to comment on the layoffs.

The company’s IPO prospects went sideways in October as Neumann made headlines for alleged self-dealing, erratic behavior and drug use — reportedly including a trans-Atlantic private jet trip after which the crew found a “sizable chunk” of marijuana hidden in a cereal box on board.

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