A 27-year-old man was shot dead inside a Harlem hotel two blocks north from Central Park — less than an hour before the ball dropped in Times Square, according to police.

The fatal encounter unfolded at around 11:15 p.m. inside the New Ebony Hotel on West 112th Street, near Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, after an argument between the victim and an unknown gunman, according to police.

The man, whose name was not immediately released, was shot multiple times, with at least one round hitting him in the groin, cops said.

EMS rushed the man to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, where he died, police said.

The victim was a guest at the hotel, according to an employee who answered the phone at the hotel, which rents rooms for the night and by the hour.

Police were still trying to figure out who the gunman was Wednesday morning.