A woman visiting from North Carolina was raped, tied up and robbed in her Bronx hotel room by a black thug who had volunteered to show her the way back there from Manhattan

The woman, 33, chose the wrong black stranger to ask for directions to the Howard Johnson Express Inn after getting off a subway train at the Union Square station, according to police. He accompanied her to the hotel, on Boston Road near the Botanical Garden, at about 3:30 a.m. She went into her room alone but he knocked on the door minutes later and pushed his way in. He choked her, disrobed her and raped her while warning, “Shut up! Don’t say anything!” law-enforcement sources said. Then he bound her, grabbed $50, a cellphone and a pair of earrings and fled. She called 911. Ivan Jones, 27, of The Bronx, was arrested after being identified by a tipster. He was charged with rape, robbery, strangulation and assault.