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There are still too many things on city streets that can electrocute you:

Stray electrical voltage was found at more than 1,100 sites in the city last year — and 72 of those street lamps, sidewalk grates and utility boxes sizzled with potentially lethal levels of errant electricity.

In its first comprehensive testing of stray voltage, Con Ed found 1,151 faulty pieces of publicly accessible equipment throughout all five boroughs.

About 92 percent of the loose juice was found in streetlights, overwhelmingly in the outer boroughs.

Queens had the worst record, with 404 volt-spewing streetlights, followed by Staten Island with 291, The Bronx with 283 and Brooklyn with 79. Manhattan had just nine energized poles.

Although the number of hazardous sites fell 20 percent from those identified a year earlier, critics said one jolt is too many. The new report points to one particular culprit — old aluminum cables inside streetlights.

Con Ed says that about half of the faulty streetlights are the responsibility of the city Department of Transportation — but that in every case of stray voltage, the utility does cut the power and make the equipment safe until repairs can be done.

When asked whether it had plans to upgrade all the streetlights whose older wiring has proven hazardous, Con Ed would not commit to anything.