They would be the Big Apple’s cat crusaders.

Mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa is pitching a plan to solve New York City’s rat problem — unleashing a strike team of feral cats to hunt down the rodents at public parks and other “hot spots.”

Speaking one day after The Post exposed rat infestation at the Tarr-Coyne Tots Playground on West 67th Street, the Guardian Angels founder and GOP candidate said the feline fix is the obvious answer to the rodent problem plaguing parts of the city. 5

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“This is Mother Nature’s way of preventing rats, rodents and others to plague any area of the city,” Sliwa said Sunday at the Central Park playground. “What you really have to do is if you feed them, if you water them, if you provide them a basic accommodation.

“It’s generally a little plastic Tuppe

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