The Guardian Angels founder was speaking outside the 96th Street station on Monday morning, one day after Mayor Eric Adams had dropped out of the race. Bill Apple, 76, emerged from the station and ran into Sliwa.

The registered Democrat donated twice to Sliwa, whom he described as someone who “knows the city.”

“I detest Andrew Cuomo,” Apple said, citing the former governor’s management of the pandemic and his sexual harassment scandals.

But Apple had started to have second thoughts about Sliwa’s viability.

“It seems to me that this is going to be a collision course,“ he told Sliwa.