Mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa issues warning to NYC squeegee men

Mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa got into it with a crew of Big Apple squeegee men Tuesday, telling them if they don’t clean up their act, “I’m going to run you guys out of this town.”

The Guardian Angels founder went toe to toe with the window-washing menaces a few blocks from Times Square — and shortly before a scheduled campaign event.

“Remember me? I ran you out before,” Sliwa told the head of the squeegee crew, who identified himself only as Malik.

“If you win, I’m going to start robbing again,” Malik shot back. “You not going to win. We are going to do our thing. Squeegee are back.”

“If I win, out come the handcuffs,” Sliwa said.

“If you win, I’m going to shoot myself in the f—ing head,” Malik answered.

The Post reported Monday that the crew of squeegee men, once the target of city quality-of-life efforts, had resurfaced on Ninth Avenue near 40th Street.

They were back at it Tuesday when a crew of about five were spotted harassing motorists again — even after cops gave them a stern warning.

Malik said he makes up to $40 an hour supervising the crew, along with an enforcer known as “the General.”

“You remember me?” Sliwa told the enforcer. “Remember I ran you out 30 years ago?”

“Leave us alone,” said the “General,” who had a bloodied face that he blamed on “a little altercation” without elaborating.

“I don’t want to do anything else. I been doing this for 30 years.”

At his subsequent press conference, Sliwa said he had a strategy to help get the “squeegee posses” off the streets.

“We’re going to try to start the very first squeegee buy-back program,” he said. “We’re going to sit down and negotiate a buy-back program to get the squeegees out of their hands.”

He did not say how much he would pay them.

Sliwa also referenced former Mayor Rudy Giuiliani, who declared war on the squeegee men after taking office in 1994.

Sliwa said it would be “Guiliani time again” if he gets elected.