It burns to write this, but: It’s time for Curtis Sliwa to face reality, and admit that the city’s best hope to avoid the disaster of a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty is for him to drop out of the race.

Sliwa is absolutely right that it’s not his fault that New York is in this corner, but fault isn’t the issue here.

The simple fact is that the Republican nominee is far back in third place in every poll, with zero chance of winning.

Polls show Andrew Cuomo in spitting distance of Mamdani if Sliwa quits the race; if Curtis stays in and Andrew loses by a Sliwa-shaped hole, then he will be blamed.

Plenty of readers will erupt in fury at us, and we get it: No one will confuse this page, or The Post as a whole, for Cuomo fans .

That’s not the issue, either: In a dire situation, we’ve got to

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