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Curtis Sliwa

American politician and talk radio show host (born 1954)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Curtis Anthony Sliwa is an American politician, activist and radio talk show host at 710 WOR Radio in NYC. He is the founder and chief executive officer of the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit crime-prevention organization headquartered in New York City. Sliwa was twice the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Mayor of New York, being defeated in 2021 by Democratic nominee Eric Adams and in 2025 by Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.

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The public source identifies “Curtis Sliwa” as american politician and talk radio show host (born 1954). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Curtis, Sliwa and American.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Curtis, Sliwa and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Curtis Sliwa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.