One year after the peak of the coronavirus epidemic in New York City, at least 780 bodies of pandemic victims are still being warehoused in “long-term” storage facilities in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The city’s so-called “disaster morgue” has been coping with the overflow of dead bodies since April 2020, when New York was the epicenter of disease and death in the U.S. Last July, 1,300 bodies were being kept on ice.

No one expected so many to still be there.

“There are currently 780 decedents at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, the vast majority of whom have an identified next of kin,” said Dina Maniotis, chief of staff at the city Medical Examiner’s office. “We will continue to provide storage to ensure each and every decedent is laid to rest as their loved ones see fit.”

Maniotis refused to say if there was any deadline for the removal of the bodies by next of kin — or for the city to bring bodies to Hart Island, the city’s potter’s field, for burial.

Though the deadline to remove a body from a city morgue for burial is usually 30 days or less, city officials have allowed the bodies to remain there. Many families are unable to afford the cost of a funeral and burial.

“People haven’t been able to come up with funds,” Mike Lamotte, the executive director and CEO of the New York State Funeral Directors Association, told the Post. “The city is giving them extra time. Nowhere else in the world had so many deaths within the same time span. It’s unprecedented in modern times.”

New York State was the original epicenter of infections in the US and has the highest death toll from COVID-19, with more than 44,000 fatalities.

Last month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that New Yorkers whose relatives died from COVID-19 will soon become eligible to apply for reimbursement of up to $7,000 in funeral expenses.

The disaster morgue, a complex of several warehouse buildings, is off-limits to the public and well guarded. The facility was invaluable last year when funeral homes and burial sites became backed up with the unexpected overflow of bodies.

According to a recent report, more people were buried on Hart Island in 2020 than any year during the AIDS epidemic. If city officials keep pace with last year’s numbers, about one in 10 of New York’s COVID-19 victims will be buried in the potter’s field.

A review by The City and the Columbia Journalism School’s Stabile Center of Investigative Journalism showed that at least 2,334 adults were buried on Hart Island in 2020 — 2 ½ times the figure recorded in 2019 and about 1,000 more than in 1988, the peak year for AIDS burials.

Lamotte said that even if a body is unclaimed and eventually buried in a trench on Hart Island, there will be information about the victim available in case a relative comes forward. The body can then be disinterred and re-buried elsewhere.

Last year, COVID deaths peaked during the week of April 5, when an average of 566 people were dying every day in the city, the CDC reported.

“We’re finding it back to normal back here in Sheepshead Bay,” funeral director Frank Restivo told the Post Friday.