Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Curtis Sliwa called me on Wednesday afternoon, the failed New York City ...
In 1992, Curtis Sliwa, who was then a radio talk-show host who liked to bad-mouth the Mob, got into the back of a yellow cab, and—as he mentioned repeatedly during the first New York City mayoral ...
Curtis Sliwa ran a heck of a mayoral race. But face it: He was never going to win. Everyone knew that — even Sliwa. The Guardian Angels founder was on the Republican ballot because no one else wanted ...
IT’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 ...