A fleabag hotel near Central Park has become the center of an Upper West Side crime wave, neighbors say.

Since 2006, there have been a murder, three robberies, four felony assaults, 13 burglaries, 23 grand larcenies and two auto thefts on the tree-lined block of West 71st Street between the park and Columbus Avenue, according to a crime-stat analysis done for The Post by Onboard Informatics.

Most neighbors blame the 12-story, 92-room Rodeway Inn at 31 W. 71st Street — a former welfare hotel with $129 rooms.

Its recent rap sheet includes:

A March 16 armed robbery in which three masked gunmen stormed the hotel at about 8:20 a.m., pistol-whipped three workers and swiped thousands of dollars in cash from the safe, which the manager opened. Police sources told The Post it was an “inside job.”

A Dec. 30 rape in which ex-con Farhan Khan, 27, allegedly sodomized a 35-year-old stranger in the hotel while holding a knife to her throat and sneering, “Today is the day you’re going to die.”

A June 9, 2015, homicide in which the body of Paul Dawson, 41, of Asbury Park, NJ, was found covered in plastic wrap after an apparent S&M session gone bad.

Neighbors told The Post of drunken fights, battles over parking spots, suspicious characters and constant police activity.

On a block featuring luxury apartment buildings, brownstones, two restaurants, a Hindu temple, and many young families, the sketchy hotel does not fit in.

“What are they waiting for, something worse to happen?” fumed one parent, who declined to give her name for fear of reprisal. She said her 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter were walking to nearby PS 199 around the time the armed bandits were making their getaway March 16.

“We are very concerned,” she said. “It’s an unsafe place in a residential neighborhood. It’s no longer just a hotel. Something is going on there . . . Nobody knows for sure. Some people want to protest.”

Rodeway Inn manager Robert Kowal declined comment. Calls to Choice Hotels’ corporate headquarters in Rockville, Md., were not returned.

In 1972, the hotel was known as the Kent Hotel and used by the city to house welfare recipients, according to published reports. The hotel was a magnet for drugs and prostitution, and a court order forced the eviction of some tenants.

The Kent went from an single-room occupancy to a Comfort Inn, before changing its name to the Rodeway Inn in January.

The hotel attracts mostly Europeans who think they’re going to have a “decent” stay — until they get there, one source previously told The Post. “It’s like a bait-and-switch. It looks decent online when you book it, but you need a tetanus shot before sleeping there.”

Fifty-two complaints have been filed against the hotel since 2005, according to the city Department of Buildings, which issued 59 violations. The complaints ranged from allegations of illegal plumbing and electrical work to broken elevators and falling brick from the facade.

Borough President Gail Brewer called the crime wave “pretty awful” and said in light of the statistics presented to her by The Post she will call on the 20th Precinct to “pay more attention to the site.”