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Three senior centers linked to scandal-plagued Assemblyman Vito Lopez are among those targeted for closure by the city, a sign to some City Hall insiders that the Brooklyn Democrat’s legendary influence is on the wane.

The centers, managed by Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a nonprofit that Lopez founded and to which he maintains close ties, were on the city’s list of 105 senior centers that might be shuttered.

Up to 40 percent of the city’s senior-citizen centers might have to close if Gov. Cuomo’s proposed budget, which would redirect $25 million in aid away from the Department of Aging, is approved by Albany lawmakers.

A City Council source said it was no accident that the Lopez-linked centers ended up on the hit list.

“Two years ago, the city wouldn’t have come anywhere near Ridgewood Bushwick,” said the source.

“[Vito and Ridgewood Bushwick] lost their immunity.”

The Bushwick-based nonprofit runs six senior centers and received more than $5 million in contracts from the Department for the Aging last year, according to city records.

It’s currently the subject of several city and federal probes.

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