I T’S EVERY New Yorker’s lament: the city is full of yellow cabs, except when you really need one. And so, when Curtis Sliwa saw an empty one near his apartment just before dawn one morning in 1992, he felt like he had “hit the lottery”.

The distinctive headpiece traces its origins to a time when both crime and Mr. Sliwa’s public profile were on the rise.

The first thing is I have a legacy with the Jewish community here. During the Crown Heights riots [in 1991], the mayor at that time, David Dinkins, told the police to stand down. The only people that the Lubavitch could depend on were me and the Guardian Angels on the corner of Kingston and President.

Former mayor Rudy Giuliani, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis and local officials spoke at rally outside the Republican party headquarters on Richmond Road in New Dorp.

Curtis Sliwa stands little chance of becoming New York’s next mayor. But when asked what it would take for him to drop out of the race, the red beret-wearing Republican left no room for ambiguity. “A Mack truck hits me and I get turned into a speed bump, and they can’t recover me in the ICU. That’s the only way.”

Saturday Night Live turned New York City politics into pure chaos this weekend as Shane Gillis made a surprise appearance in the cold open, crashing the stage as Guardian Angels founder and mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa.

Most Trump voters are sticking with Sliwa, with 66 percent saying they would support the Republican candidate in next week’s election, according to the Emerson poll. But Cuomo, a former Democratic governor running as an independent, is winning over 32 percent of them.

Former independent mayoral candidate Jim Walden, who dropped his own long-shot campaign and backed ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bid, rehashed a slew of scandals, allegations and sagas from Sliwa’s decades in Big Apple politics Monday.

Miles Teller portrayed former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the “Saturday Night Live” cold open, which poked fun at the New York City mayoral debate. The segment also featured Ramy Youssef and Shane Gillis as Cuomo’s fellow mayoral candidates,

A number of people have asked Sliwa to drop out of the New York City mayor's race, but the Republican nominee says he's in it to win it.