Compare the two great cities of our age: New York and Parramatta.

One is a gang-infested, crime-ridden hellscape where all but the brave or foolish fear to tread. The other is New York City.

At least, that’s how Curtis Sliwa, the beret-wearing 71-year-old running as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York, remembers the city when he came here to establish a vigilante force.

“Took me an hour to get all the way out to the suburbs, I go, ‘How bad could it possibly be?’ And then when I walked around, Oh, they got gangs here,” he told independent West Australian blog The Last Place on Earth on Monday.

As polls close on Tuesday night (US time), Sliwa is set to come dead last, with Democrat socialist Zohran Mamdani the likely winner . Standing on the 14th Street subway – a statio

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