Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed President Trump not to send the National Guard to New York in a recent phone call, highlighting the city’s decline in crime, she revealed Tuesday.

The phone conversation – which Hochul initiated Saturday, insiders said – unfolded as Trump floated sending troops to Chicago and New York City after deploying the military on the streets of Washington, DC to crack down on crime.

Hochul, during an event in Harlem, recounted her soft-touch attempts to dissuade Trump from sending troops to the Big Apple, while also attacking the president’s recent executive order on cashless bail that targeted blue states like New York.

Hochul has also been sparring with Trump on bail reform. James Keivom

“I don’t know what he’ll do,” she said as she shrugged.

Trump, when asked by The Post later Tuesday about his call with Hochul, said he’d love to send troops – so long as the governor needs the help.

“I’d love to do it, if she’d like,” he said, adding, “I get along with Kathy.

“I want to make this like, friendly.”

Trump deployed the National Guard in the nation’s capital to crackdown on rampant crime, although many critics have argued his claims are overblown and deemed it an “authoritarian push.”

The president has repeatedly said that Chicago will be the next major city to receive a surge in federal policing to fight crime, followed by his hometown.

“I think Chicago will be our next [stop] and then we’ll help with New York,” the Queens native said last week.

New York City has seen a dramatic decline in crime, with shootings plunging to all-time lows so far this year. The latest NYPD statistics showed nearly all major felonies were down almost 5% compared to 2024.

Hochul – who controversially deployed the state’s National Guard in the subway system to tackle transit crime — said she gently tried to dissuade Trump from pulling a similar military move.

“I was very gracious,” she said. “I just said, ‘I’ll tell you what, Mr. President, if I think I need help from the National Guard on the stuff I’m already doing I know where to find them.’

“I had that conversation, I said, ‘Mr. President, I can give you all the data to show that crime is down. It’s working. Our policies are working. NYPD is doing their job.’”

Kathy Hochul said her conversation with the president didn’t giver her any clarity on whether NYC would face the same treatment as DC. AP

Mayor Eric Adams likewise rebuffed the suggestion that New York needed Trump to send the National Guard, saying “we got this” – and even offering to help other cities with their crime problems.

“If the federal government wants to communicate with us and ask us to go to other municipalities and help them see what we’re doing, we’re willing to do that,” he told Bloomberg’s Businessweek Daily.

Roughly 1,000 National Guard troops are still deployed in the subways, governor’s officials said.

Trump has hailed his deployment of National Guard troops in D.C. after the city went 9 days without a murder. Getty Images

The governor, who is seeking re-election next year, has more fiercely struck back on the Trump administration targeting New York on congestion pricing, sanctuary city policies and his immigration crackdown.

Hochul, in that vein, also again ripped Trump’s executive order aiming to stop cashless bail – a directive largely aimed at New York.

She contended the order wouldn’t apply to the Empire State – which has largely eliminated cash bail for misdemeanors and non-violent felonies.

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Murder, rape and robbery, along with a slew of other violent, sexual and grievous felonies are bail eligible, despite the state’s controversial 2019 bail reforms signed by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

“The president is wrong. He’s flat out wrong,” Hochul argued. “We don’t have cashless bail in. New York.”

“He has no concept of how our laws work here… He’s just trying to throw gasoline on a fire,” she said. “I think he’s going after blue states, Democratic states, states with Democratic governors, states with Democratic mayors. It’s just part of a larger strategy to create chaos.”

Trump, for his part, called cashless bail a tragedy and maintained New York led the misguided charge.

“Cashless bail was a disaster,” he said.