A few minutes after Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa gave his concession speech on Tuesday night, he called Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani . “I wished him the best on behalf of the city and said, ‘I’m sure I’m going to be talking a lot about you down the road,’” Sliwa reported the following morning.

He was speaking from his apartment on the Upper West Side, the de facto headquarters of his campaign. After catching up on some sleep, he called volunteers and staffers to thank them for working through an election that elevated Sliwa to the highest station of his five decades in public life: as the heel for both the Republican Establishment and the old-guard Democrats who hoped Andrew Cuomo could defeat Mamdani in the general election despite an embarrassing Democratic-primary loss

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