Metro

A cry of gimme shelters

Location, location, location!

Manhattanites seeking refuge from Hurricane Irene had some good, bad and flat-out odd choices when it came to picking a city shelter.

Those wanting to ride out the storm in a food and booze haze — but not too concerned about sleep — found a winner with Park West HS, on West 50th Street.

The school — a last-minute fill-in for the nearby HS of Graphic Communications, which was shuttered when evacuees showed up — boasted easy proximity to the slew of Hell’s Kitchen eateries and bars luring Irene revelers with storm specials.

Unfortunately, it had no cots, just open floor space.

“You can sleep here,” an organizer said. “But we don’t have any beds.”

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Luxury and amenity seekers were better off trekking a few blocks up to John Jay College, on West 59th Street and Tenth Avenue. The nearby movie theater and stores vowed to stay open — unless the power goes out. The college boasts 10 clean bathrooms and lots of room, and workers hustled to set up cots for as many as 10,000 refugees.

Another plus: A team of 25 doctors and nurses from area hospitals stood by to help and was asking for medical-supply donations.

Evacuees in search of fine shelter dining headed to Seward Park HS, on Grand Street, where the American Red Cross was catering to a heavily Asian and Latino crowd with “a culturally familiar menu.”

One drawback: Sheltergoers weren’t allowed to seek higher ground on the school’s ultracool rooftop graffiti deck.

Meanwhile, history buffs could get a fix at George Washington HS, on East 193rd.

It’s a bit off the beaten track, but shelter dwellers consoled themselves by pacing the same halls once traveled by illustrious grads Henry Kissinger, Maria Callas, Harry Belafonte, Alan Greenspan and Jacob Javits.

jeane.macintosh@nypost.com