Recently, a team of amNewYork and Schneps Media editors and reporters sat down with each of the three mayoral candidates for interviews about their campaigns and visions for the Big Apple. This is the first in a series of stories about those interviews.

Curtis Sliwa, the red beret-wearing Republican candidate for mayor, says he's staying right where he is: In the fight.

The mayor's race is in the home stretch, and with incumbent Eric Adams now out of the running, Sliwa is seen by some politicos as the third wheel in a larger matchup between Democratic frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and independent former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. After Adams dropped out of the contest, a recent poll suggested Cuomo picked up a big chunk of Adams voters — and some believe Sliwa's voters could help Cuomo pull off a v

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