Ex-rep Anthony Weiner to host radio show with Curtis Sliwa
February 11, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced former Congress member and ex-convict Anthony Weiner will host a weekly radio show with Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, WABC-AM radio officials announced.
The pair, who both have run losing campaigns for New York City mayor, will argue politics on a show called “The Left vs.
Eric Adams promises to ‘get stuff done’ as NYC’s next mayor
November 3, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams pledged Wednesday to be a practical and progressive mayor who will “get stuff done” for the nation's largest city.
“Listen, you can be as philosophical as you want,” Adams said on MSNBC's “Morning Joe." ”I’m not going to be a philosophical mayor.
Adams wins NYC mayor; Wu makes history winning Boston mayor
November 3, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Former police captain Eric Adams easily won the race for New York mayor Tuesday, and Boston elected its first woman and Asian American to the city’s top job as voters across the U.S.
Democrat Eric Adams wins race for New York City mayor
November 3, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Eric Adams has been elected New York City mayor, defeating Republican Curtis Sliwa on Tuesday in a contest far easier than his next task: steering a damaged city through its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Cat got your vote? NYC candidate brings pet to polling place
November 3, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — New York City's Republican mayoral candidate, Curtis Sliwa, tried to bring a furry friend to his polling place on Tuesday — one of his many pet cats.
Sliwa, who lost the race to Democrat Eric Adams, showed up at his Manhattan voting site with the animal cradled in his arms.
Campaign says NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa hit by taxi
October 29, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa was hit by a yellow cab in midtown Manhattan on Friday, ending up with a fractured left arm, his campaign said.
Sliwa, the Guardian Angels founder who is on Tuesday's ballot for mayor of New York City, was hit by a taxi near Rockefeller Center shortly before noon, senior campaign adviser Rob Cole said.
New York’s mayoral candidates trade barbs and compliments
October 27, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The candidates running to become New York City's mayor lobbed accusations at each other about palling around with gangsters and acting like children or clowns, but their second debate ended on a surprisingly tender note involving cats and veganism.
Eric Adams, Curtis Sliwa spar in 1st NYC mayoral debate
October 21, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The two men running to become New York City's next mayor offered starkly different visions Wednesday about how to lead the nation's largest city out of the pandemic, improve public safety and gird the city of 8.8 million people for more powerful storms driven by climate change.
Stunts, cats and crime: Sliwa’s colorful run for NYC mayor
October 15, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Wearing his signature red beret, Curtis Sliwa is on television, stroking one of his 16 rescue cats in a campaign ad. He’s in the subway with his Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol. He's breaking up restaurant brawls in Little Italy and blaming the mafia and the mayor when he’s banned from judging the meatball-eating contest.
Hochul names NYC mayoral runner-up Kathryn Garcia to top job
September 1, 2021 GMTALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that she is appointing Kathryn Garcia, the former New York City sanitation commissioner and runner-up in the city's Democratic mayoral primary, as director of state operations and Neysa Alsina, a chief counsel to the New York City comptroller, as special adviser on pandemic relief.
Curtis Sliwa, in Guardian Angels beret, defies no-swim order
May 24, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Curtis Sliwa donned a wetsuit and his trademark Guardian Angels red beret and strode into the water at Coney Island Sunday in defiance of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s no-swimming order.
A crowd cheered Sliwa on as several city Parks Department officers tried to order the Guardian Angels founder and New York mayoral candidate out of the surf.