Infamous subway vigilante Curtis Sliwa’s mayoral campaign has shelled out nearly $35,000 on Ubers and taxis — but he justified the runaway spending Thursday as necessary “because of threats on my life.”
The Republican nominee — who has made a career patrolling the subways with his crew of beret-wearing Guardian Angels — spent $30,000 alone for hundreds of trips on the rideshare app between February and last month, according to campaign filings reviewed by The Post.
Over the same seven-month time frame, the third-place GOP firebrand also charged around $4,700 to his campaign for nearly 200 cabs, the disclosure filed with the Campaign Finance Board shows. 4
The total spending was approximately 135% more than front-runner Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani’s campaign spent, accordi