Adams, Sliwa resort to name calling as they spar over NYC migrant crisis

Mayor Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa got especially nasty over the migrant crisis Tuesday — with Hizzoner blasting the Guardian Angel as a “buffoon’’ and his foe deriding him as “The Swaggerman with No Plan.’’

“Any time you start out a question with the name ‘Curtis Sliwa’ — that in itself states it would be a disservice to me and other New Yorkers to even respond,” Adams snarked when asked about Sliwa’s calls to house migrants on the grounds at Gracie Mansion.

“If you look in the dictionary for the word ‘buffoon,’ tell me what picture comes up,” snapped the mayor during a press conference at City Hall.

The 69-year-old Guardian Angels founder was among five protestors Sunday during a raucous clash outside the mayoral residence on the Upper East Side during a rally over the asylum seeker housing.

Sliwa, the former Republican nominee for mayor, fired back when reached by phone, calling the mayor a “general in full retreat,” claiming he has conceded to Gov. Hochul and President Biden at each turn.

“He’s what I call: ‘The Swaggerman with No Plan,” Sliwa sniped.

“We are going down to a rate of fiscal insolvency at the rate he’s spending our tax dollars,” Sliwa quipped.

New York City is projected to shell out more than $12 billion over the next three years to handle the migrant crisis, which has led to more than 100,000 asylum seekers coming through New York since spring 2022.

Sliwa has been one of the more vocal opponents of housing migrants in NYC — specifically Staten Island, where protests have erupted over the past week at the shuttered St. John Villa Academy, which has been turned into a 300-bed makeshift shelter.

Republican lawmakers, led by Borough President Vito Fossella, have sued to stop the sites at the former Catholic school, claiming the generators running round the clock to power outdoor showers would pose a “nuisance.”

The challenge initially landed a windfall for plaintiffs with a judge issuing a temporary restraining order, but a higher court quickly struck it down on Friday.

Less than 2% of the 59,000 asylum seekers under the city’s care are being sheltered on Staten Island, according to City Hall.