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New York Post
24-07-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Curtis Sliwa finally gets sit-down with NYC business leaders as mayor race heats up
The business community is finally opening its doors to GOP NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa – but will it open its wallets? Following my Sunday column in the Post on Sliwa's surprising strength in recent polling, and how business leaders are ignoring him, the NYC Partnership scheduled a meeting with the Guardian Angels founder on Thursday morning, On The Money has learned. The meeting at Partnership offices in Battery Park Plaza will be led by the group's chief, Kathy Wylde, though it's unclear how many business leaders will actually attend as most of the city's fat-cat class start to pick sides between current Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. 3 The NYC Partnership is meeting with Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. 'Because of you and your column I will be meeting with Kathryn Wylde today and her group,' Sliwa said in a text message, adding that he won't be wearing his trade-mark red Guardian Angels beret today amid criticisms that his sartorial flair often detracts from his message. That message will offer a heavy dose of crime-fighting to support big business and small businesses alike, tax cuts and slashing the city's massive bureaucracy – including in the Education Department, which does a lousy job teaching basic skills but employs swaths of needless administrators. Wylde declined to comment, but these are all issues that should appeal to business types, who have for years complained about high taxes and regulations, and since the tenure of former left-wing Mayor Bill de Blasio floundering quality of life issues like rising crime. Their fears have been compounded by the rise of Zohran Mamdani, the uber-leftist (some would say communist) assemblyman from Queens who recently beat Cuomo in the city Democratic mayoral primary and is now the favorite to win the general election in November. 3 Uber-leftist is now the favorite to win the general election in November. / MEGA Sliwa will be accompanied by Ed Cox, chairman of the New York State Republican Party and some staffers of conservative Democratic City Councilman Robert Holden, whom Sliwa has said would hold a position in his administration if he is elected. The sit-down comes as Sliwa's appeal grows. A recent HarrisX poll put him in a statistical tie with Mandami (26%) and Cuomo (23%) in a four-way race, according to the margin of error. Sliwa's 22% share easily beat Adams (13%), the poll found. 3 The sit-down comes as Sliwa's appeal grows. A recent HarrisX poll put him in a statistical tie with Mandami (26%) and Cuomo (23%) in a four-way race. Yet, Sliwa has raised just $169,000 in the last reporting period, compared with $1.5 million for Adams. Mamdani — who met with the Partnership last week — has spoken about government takeovers of grocery stores, defunding the police and wouldn't denounce the left-wing rally cry of 'globalizing the intifada' despite its anti semitic overtones. Business leaders expressed a high degree of skepticism after listening to him address questions on those issues. That said, they have yet to fully coalesce behind either Adams or Cuomo, who bring their own baggage to the race. Adams' tenure as mayor has been marred by significant corruption scandals. Cuomo was forced to resign as governor in 2021 amid sexual harassment allegations that he has denied and were never prosecuted. Sliwa brings different baggage. He has never held elected office (he lost handily to Adams four years ago running as a Republican). He is best known for his decades of work leading the Guardian Angels, a crime-fighting organization that made its name in the 1980s patrolling NYC's crime-ridden subway system.
New York Post
22-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Curtis Sliwa's controversial candidacy: Letters to the Editor — July 23, 2025
The Issue: Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa's run for mayor of New York City. Finally: Curtis Sliwa is getting some attention ('Sliwa: I have a path,' July 20). Charles Gasparino followed Sliwa for quite some time, and Gasparino knows New Yorkers. Advertisement Sliwa knows the problems of New York; he walked the streets late at night and manned the subways. Our current candidates ride the subway with a crew of reporters for one or two stops. As far as his signature beret, Zohran Mamdani campaigned in the beginning in what looked like pajamas. Maria Musolino Advertisement Staten Island I don't see why Sliwa has to 'kiss the ring' of Kathy Wylde. Judging by the number of empty storefronts, I don't think her NYC Partnership is doing much to support local businesses. Advertisement Plus, she seems to belong to the group that thinks gambling and marijuana revenues are the way to shore up the city's finances. I will vote for Sliwa, particularly, because he seems intent on keeping NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. But, I have some advice, Curtis: Lose the beret now and don't go to the polls in November cradling one of your cats — it makes you look weird and unserious. Ilene Heller Advertisement Manhattan Sliwa is as qualified to be mayor as I am to be pope — and I'm not Catholic. He has never worked as a beat cop or a detective tracking down thugs. Instead, he devoted his life to a glorified neighborhood watch association. He never served in the military, but adopted the beret, a symbol of elite troops. It looks like an attempt to appropriate the prestige of the military. Sliwa never launched a business, hired scads of people and built it into a powerhouse. Does anyone on Wall Street, in state and local government or the police unions take him seriously? Advertisement Yet he vows to stay in the race. His sole accomplishment will be splitting the vote and electing Mamdani. Scott Reeves Manhattan Advertisement Curtis Sliwa is somebody who the people of this city can trust. He is down to earth and cares about New Yorkers. New Yorkers continue to move out of the city because of high crime, high rent and high taxes, and Sliwa will work tirelessly to reduce all of those things. He will work with our wonderful NYPD and FDNY to improve working conditions and salaries for New York City's bravest. Advertisement He will work hard to further improve our public school system for our teachers, principals and students, so that parents will not pull their children out of schools. Sliwa is the right person for the job of mayor, so let's show him support. John Amato Fresh Meadows Advertisement There is definitely a path for Sliwa to win the mayoral election. What he needs most is money. He also needs Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Adams and Jim Walden to stay in the race and split the vote. Tom Gagan Mount Vernon Sliwa refuses to abandon his tough white outer-borough look and goes strutting around sporting his Guardian Angel outfit, replete with red beret and jacket. That image does not appeal to the vast majority of New Yorkers. Democratic candidates will thrash Sliwa. Dennis Middlebrooks Brooklyn Keep up with today's most important news Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update. Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters The pickings are slim for the New York City mayoral election, but Sliwa truly deserves a shot. Cuomo and Adams have failed track records. Mamdani, an avowed socialist and anti-capitalist, will perpetuate further misery. Meanwhile, Sliwa has literally put his life on the line for New Yorkers and earned our trust. Peter Cooper Bronxville Sliwa is a Republican, which puts him behind the eight-ball in the mayoral race. However, he has been patrolling the streets and protecting New Yorkers for over 40 years. He knows the bad places better than the police themselves. He wasn't responsible for any of the deaths during COVID, or the money we laid out to house thousands of illegals, and he certainly doesn't have Marxist convictions like Zohran Mamdani. Dan Liberati White Plains Want to weigh in on today's stories? Send your thoughts (along with your full name and city of residence) to letters@ Letters are subject to editing for clarity, length, accuracy, and style.
New York Post
15-07-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Rise of Zohran Mamdani has Wall Street giving up on Gotham
The NYC Partnership threw a party — but no one really showed up. A who's who of the New York City business community were no shows for a Tuesday meet and greet session with socialist democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The list of New York City-based CEOs that declined the Partnership's invitation includes Jamie Dimon, the nation's top banker and chief of JP Morgan, the nations largest bank; Steve Schwarzman, the CEO of private equity powerhouse Blackstone; Brian Moynihan, the head of Bank of America, the nations second largest bank; Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, the worlds largest asset manager; and David Solomon, the CEO of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs. Advertisement Most publicly pleaded 'scheduling conflicts.' But 'what is this guy going to tell us that we don't already know?' is how someone close to Solomon described the situation. Those sentiments were pretty universal among according to sources at the banks of the CEOs who didn't attend. Advertisement There was once a time that CEOs of this caliber would want to meet the likely next mayor of the city. Now, it's resignation — a bet that New York City is a lost cause, and a belief that the Partnership, run by the retiring Kathy Wylde, is an increasingly impotent advocate to turn back the increasingly leftist political class. Most business leaders I know are looking for an exit strategy rather than a strategy to deal with a mayor Mamdani. Yes, they want the current mayor Eric Adams to stick around — ethical warts and all — because he's the devil they know and they like his very competent police commissioner, Jessica Tisch. Advertisement But Adams faces an uphill climb, all the more so because Andrew Cuomo, who lost to Mamdani in the primary, is leading what they see as a Quixotic run as an independent. Curtis Sliwa, the GOP nominee, is going nowhere fast. The polls, for now, show a likely Mamdani mayoralty, combined with a leftist city council and a state government that veers nearly as far left as Zohran. Advertisement All which spells disaster for those businesses who stay: Police defunding, higher taxes and government takeover of businesses like supermarkets. And that gets us to why there were so many no shows Tuesday: the city's business community doesn't have to stay. If you follow these big firms, as I do, you know they employ hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers — but fewer and fewer in recent years. The harsh COVID lockdowns here gave them the excuse to move operations to places with lower taxes and regulations, mainly Florida and Texas, but also Utah and even Tennessee. Mamdani will be another reason for the big banks to finally say goodbye to Gotham.
