Curtis Sliwa on the assumption that his policies are closer to Cuomo’s than Mamdani’s: ‘hopelessly wrong’

Curtis Sliwa was born in New York City, was nearly killed in New York City, and will be buried in New York City. “I pour my sweat and tears into the city, the city that I love, every day,” the Republican mayoral nominee told an audience of business and civic leaders on Wednesday morning.

But the vision he painted of the city was one in crisis.

“It’s a complete catastrophe,” he said of public safety on the subway, reflecting on the 2024 killing of a homeless woman who was set on fire.

“It’s a catastrophe,” he said of New York City students’ test scores.

The Wednesday event was the second in a mayoral series hosted by the Association for a Better New York, an organization of business and civic leaders. Sliwa’s event drew just a fraction of the crowd that Democratic mayoral nominee and cu