New York is a paradise for those who love to pander for votes.

That’s especially true in New York City, the Big Apple.

Think of it: The city of 8 million-plus residents has a large Jewish-American population; the Catholic Church is big there, as well; it has a large African-American bloc of residents and a significant LGBT community; it is home to blue-collar and white-collar residents; progressives and conservatives live there; a lot of veterans call NYC home; immigrants from all over the world have settled there.

Why, there’s a group to which to pander for any of the five candidates competing for their parties’ presidential nomination.

The city has enough groups to go around several times among all five of them.

The state’s all-important primary is coming up a week from this coming Tuesday.

For Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, this is it. He’s got to win it to stay viable as a presidential hopeful. Donald J. Trump must win the Republican primary big, too. Bernie was born in Brooklyn; Trump was born in Queens. They’re home boys. They might have less need to pander than the others.

Rest assured, though, they’re going to pander to the home-boy crowd, the folks who want to vote for one of their own.

I can hear them now talking smack with crowds about how they know more about the city than their rivals. Yep, that’s pandering, too.

Meanwhile, the others — even Hillary Clinton, who represented New York in the Senate for eight years — are going to try to out-pander each other in their quests for votes.

It won’t be pretty.

Then again, gut-fighter politics hardly ever is a thing of beauty.