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The tiger immortalized in New York City lore when he was discovered living inside a Harlem public housing building recently died, The Post has learned.

Ming, a 300-pound jungle beast, who had spent the last 15 years at an animal sanctuary in Ohio since his rescue from the Drew Hamilton Houses in October 2003, was recently buried at The Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in upstate New York, the cemetery’s vice president, Ed Martin III, told The Post.

“It was a very small affair,” Martin said of the funeral.

The tiger’s tombstone, designed by the cemetery, features an engraved photo of Ming and a short inscription of his storied past.

“Legendary NYC tiger, raised in apartment 5E in the Drew Hamilton Houses at 141st and Adam Clayon Powell Jr. Blvd,” the creature’s tombstone reads under his name and the engraving “Tiger of Harlem.”

“In 2003, after three years of living in the apartment, Ming was rescued by the authorities and relocated to Noah’s Lost Ark Animal Sanctuary in rural Ohio where he lived out the rest of his days in comfort and peace,” the inscription goes on before closing with the final line “Loved By Many.”

Henry Jones, a Big Apple photographer who’s been documenting Ming since 2017, told The Post the tiger “passed away peacefully” on Feb. 4 from natural causes.

He was cremated and a large urn holding his remains was interred at the cemetery on April 20.

“He is loved and missed by his keepers at Noah’s Lost Ark in Ohio,” Jones said in a statement.

The story of the famous tiger, who became a proverbial symbol for just how wild the streets of New York could be, started when felinophile Antoine Yates purchased Ming when he was just eight weeks old after he was born in Racine, Minnesota.

Yates brought Ming to his five-bedroom public housing apartment in Harlem and raised him from a baby until he was a full-sized tiger who even had his own room.

“I’m devastated about it,” Yates told The Post by phone of Ming’s death.

“I’ve never had a chance to reunite with him so that’s very disappointing, it’s hard to swallow.”

Yates, who claims Ming shared a bed with him each night and was “lovable” and “affectionate,” lost the tiger after a fateful showdown between Ming and a street cat Yates tried to rescue named Shadow.

Ming wasn’t too pleased with his new roommate and tried to attack the domestic kitty — leading Yates to step in between the two to break up the scruff.

It was then Yates’ house of hairballs crumbled.

For the first time, Ming attacked Yates, sank his sizable fangs into his owner’s leg and sent him to the hospital.

Thanks to a tip from a neighbor, the NYPD soon found out about Ming and sent its elite Emergency Services Unit to rescue him from the apartment.

The rest was history.

Yates claims he never meant to keep Ming cooped up in the apartment and had big plans — that are still in motion — to purchase a large property for exotic animals that would also serve as a conservation and education center for enthusiasts like him.

He claimed someone had signed up to help him open the shelter way back in the early aughts before abandoning the project and leaving him, and Ming, empty handed.

“I was left with the cat in the bag, literally,” Yates said.

He was eventually thrown in jail over the debacle and has been rebuilding his life ever since.