A gunman shot up the entrance of an East Village apartment building early Sunday, leaving three people wounded, the shooter on the loose — and an elderly tenant calling his home “the closest to hell.’’

The potentially deadly shots rang out at the Lillian Wald Houses on Sixth Street in Alphabet City in Manhattan around 3:30 a.m. and sent victims to Bellevue Hospital and the shooter fleeing, police and bystanders said.

“I rolled out of my bed and hit the floor,” a second-floor resident told The Post. “Sounded like six or seven gunshots. I heard a guy yelling, ‘Mother f–ker! Mother f—ker!’ 4

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“In the last six months, this happened four times,” the resident said. “I blame the Housing Authority. They keep putting people in here with all these drug problems and stuff. They shouldn’t be

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