Ex-hotel still houses sex offenders near NYC playground after bombshell report — and nearby shelter is now following suit
A converted hotel next to a Chinatown playground is still housing violent sex offenders a full 10 months after The Post blew the whistle — and now a second Manhattan shelter is doing the same thing.
At least two registered sex offenders exposed in a July 5 report — including a level 3 offender, the highest risk — are still calling the former Hotel MB building at 61 Chrystie St. home near the Hester Street Playground, while a third only left because he was sent back to prison time and is now on parole.
Now another Big Apple neighborhood is facing the same fears for local parents, with a half dozen sex offenders holed up at a shelter at 197 Bowery, around the corner from the Rivington Street Playground.
Children play at the Rivington Playground at Sarah Roosevelt Park near a shelter housing sex offenders.
“Our society has become deaf to things that matters,” a 40-year-old mom who lives near the playground with her disabled 4-year-old daughter. “It’s like putting fresh, raw, bleeding meat in front of a shark…

Absurdity at its finest. Not one single word about the number of registrants arrested or suspected of a sex crime since they went there. Probably because the answer is ZERO.