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Former Jet Michel Faulkner to announce run for mayor

Former Jets player Michel Faulkner is ready to tackle City Hall, telling The Post he’ll formally announce his run for mayor on Monday.

Faulkner, 58, a Republican who played for the Jets in 1981, will make the announcement at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue at 11 a.m. before a Harvard Club fund-raiser later in the day, a campaign spokesman said.

“There is no Republican that has my record of serving the disenfranchised and the poor,” Faulkner told The Post.

The New Horizon Church pastor, who lives on the Upper West Side, ran against Rep. Charlie Rangel in 2010 and lost, 71 percent to 9 percent.