Only 26 percent of New York City voters want Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president in 2012, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The Marist College poll found that nearly two-thirds of people in the Big Apple — 64 percent — want him to stay on the sidelines.

The three-term mayor — who briefly flirted with the idea of running in 2008 as an Independent, according to a host of media reports — received a 50 percent job approval from the city’s voters in the survey.

“If Michael Bloomberg starts thinking presidential, there will be no great send-off from New York City voters,” says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

In a late-September interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Bloomberg dismissed the idea of a 2012 run, saying he was not considering it.

“I think we should all pull behind Barack Obama,” he said. “He’s our president.”