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The double-takes followed the mayoral candidate wherever he walked.

People asked for selfies, shook his hand, patted his shoulder and discreetly recorded videos from feet away.

“Curtis, what’s good!” one young man on the Union Square subway platform hollered, sauntering past the 71-year-old man who wore a suit and a red beret.

A local New York City celebrity for decades, Curtis Sliwa ran a longshot campaign as a Republican in 2021’s mayoral election against Mayor Eric Adams. In a city where there are about six times as many registered Democrats as Repu

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