The notorious New York City cannibal known as “The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park” has been moved to a lower-security wing of the Wards Island loony bin — putting him one step closer to freedom, The Post has learned.
East Village weed dealer Daniel Rakowitz became infamous for slaughtering his roommate Monkia Beerle in 1989, chopping up and cooking her, and slurping up a revolting soup of brains and fingers. He then fed it to unsuspecting hobos in Tompkins Square Park.
With or without the help of “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin — who propelled the case back into the headlines this week after saying she was the lone holdout juror in the murder trial, a claim since debunked — Rakowitz, 65, was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity in 1991.
Instead of state prison, he was sent to Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Ward’s Island in the East River…