New York City Republican mayoral candidate and founder of the crime prevention organization "Guardian Angels" Curtis Sliwa speaks at the grand opening of the Bay Ridge campaign office in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on October 11, 2025. Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images

A longtime fixture in New York City politics known for his eccentricities – from his love of cats to his brushes with the mob – now finds himself at the center of one of the most consequential mayoral elections in decades .

Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, is facing escalating pressure from key members of his party to drop out and clear the way for a one-on-one matchup between Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo. President Donald Trump, a Queens native himself, h

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