Get ready to “suffer” if Albany puts the city in a budget squeeze.

That was the warning yesterday from Mayor Bloomberg, who has been issuing increasingly dire predictions about what would happen if the state closes its monumental budget gap on the backs of Big Apple residents.

“We’re just going to have to suffer,” Bloomberg declared on his weekly WOR radio show.

“People are screaming about what they’ve done now with a lot of one-shots, borrowing from next year, a handful of small cuts. Wait until they see what’s going to happen in March.”

That’s when legislators in Albany will have to grapple with a deficit that Bloomberg estimated at $10 billion.

“If they start taking it out on us, and disproportionately on us versus the rest of the state . . . then we’re in big trouble,” he said.

Doug Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College, applauded Bloomberg for getting out in front of the situation.

“I think that’s what a responsible mayor should do,” he said.