Every night, before bedtime, Curtis Sliwa and his wife have a ritual: They watch an episode of The Office and listen to some Edm. “It’s just a real mood elevator,” said the two-time NYC mayoral candidate, who is partial to the German twentysomething deejay Bunt but listens to a wide range of artists in the genre.
Sliwa, 71, was sitting in an Upper West Side diner on a recent weekday afternoon. Fresh off a drubbing at the polls — his 7 percent was the lowest total for a Republican in nearly 50 years — the Guardian Angels founder bore the look of someone who won. In a way, he had. For decades known primarily to New Yorkers as reassuring tough guy and — thanks to his sometimes-shameless antics on local TV and radio — object of parody, Sliwa has lately found unlikely national celebrity as a social media folk legend. Many of his stunts, both new and vintage,…
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