Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature on Wednesday nailed down a slew of deals to cap a chaotic day.

The agreements were expected to include hard-fought changes to the pension system, a move toward legalizing casinos, an expansion of the state’s DNA data bank and a new system for drawing legislative lines every decade.

“The governor delivered in a major way,” said one city official. “It’s almost hard to believe this kind of broad-based reform is happening.”

The pension and redistricting deals were the hardest to reach — and the most controversial.

Unions called the pension agreement an attack on the working class, while fiscal hawks outside the Legislature griped it didn’t go far enough.

The final deal is projected by Team Cuomo to save state and local governments $80 billion over three decades, down from $113 billion in his original plan.

It is said to include a scaled-back version of Cuomo’s push for a 401(k)-style option that now would affect only new, non-union, “higher income” earners, like agency commissioners.

It leaves in place the 10-year period before a worker would be eligible for benefits. Cuomo wanted to bump it to 12 years.

The deal increases the current retirement age to 63, up from 62. And it would hike the 3% employee contribution rate to as much as 6% for new hires.

As the Daily News first reported Wednesday, the NYPD and FDNY would be exempt from the reforms — but payouts would be based on the final five years of salary, up from the current three years.

The plan is said to preserve for the city $21 billion of the $30 billion in savings from Cuomo’s original proposal.

While EJ McMahon, of the Empire Center for Public Policy, agreed the city comes off better, he decried the overall pension changes as “marginal tweaks.”

“Once again, it seems we’re more about the deal than the substance,” McMahon said. “It’s more about saying there’s change than actually delivering it.

Meanwhile, a key union for government workers immediately announced two radio ads slamming Cuomo for siding with Wall Street over teachers, nurses and minority communities.

Under the other deals:

The Legislature took the first step toward a constitutional amendment legalizing up to seven casinos in the state. Future legislation will spell out where they would go.

New York’s DNA data bank would require anyone convicted of a felony or misdemeanor to provide a DNA sample…..

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