Sliwa threatens to shut down Staten Island bridges over migrant shelter — says he’ll run for mayor againBy Steven Vago and Allie Griffin
Published Sep. 6, 2023
Curtis Sliwa threatened to “close down” Staten Island’s four bridges over the city’s decision to house migrants inside the borough’s shuttered St. John Villa Academy during a Tuesday night protest.
At the rally outside the former private school, Sliwa also told the crowd of hundreds protesting the 300-bed migrant shelter that he plans to run again for mayor.
“Well, let me tell you now, police, well in advance so you can tell your commander-in-chief,” the Guardian Angels founder said, referring to Mayor Eric Adams.
“We are going to close down the Verrazzano Bridge. We are going to close down the Goethals Bridge. We are going close down the [Bayonne] Bridge. We are going to close down the Outerbridge Crossing,” he said from the back of a pickup truck parked outside the makeshift shelter in the Arrochar neighborhood.
The Republican, who lost to Adams in the 2021 mayoral race, claimed independent truckers would block traffic on the bridges that connect the borough to Brooklyn and New Jersey with their 18-wheelers.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/09/06/curtis-sliwa-threatens-to-shut-down-staten-island-bridges-over-migrant-shelter-says-hell-run-for-mayor-again/
