“I’m in it to win it,” Sliwa, donning his trademark red beret, told reporters during morning rush hour on Oct. 21, outside a subway station near his home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. His wife stood by him as straphangers both jeered and applauded.

A newborn baby girl was found abandoned on the steps of the 34th Street subway station in Midtown, her umbilical cord still attached. The infant is safe and in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital as police review surveillance video to find out who left her there.