An appeals court has ruled that a New York woman whose family home was stolen by a scheming squatter can’t hold the city responsible for greenlighting the fake deed.

Jennifer Merin, 74, had sued the city for $600,000, claiming boneheaded bureaucrats allowed an ex-con to file a phony deed transfer that put her family’s empty three-bedroom Tudor in Queens under his name. He then moved in.

The Post documented ­Merin’s lengthy legal and bureaucratic struggle to get her house back. Darrell Beatty, 52, spent eight months in jail for the fraud.

The Brooklyn Appellate Court affirmed the lower Supreme Court ruling that the “city was not liable,” Law Department spokesman Nick Paolucci said Saturday. “Nevertheless, the Department of Finance has strengthened its deed-recording procedures, including inserting the sheriff as part of the review process.”

Merin was not happy, telling The Post the decision against “a legitimate lawsuit that demands the accountability of the city for an egregious act” was “absolutely astonishing.”