"It's good to see ya'll back," Bronx resident Tammy Benson, 60, told Sliwa after giving him a kiss at the 125th Street station in Harlem. "You and them need to come back. I'm grateful to see it. I feel really blessed when I see [Sliwa] It's been like 40 years and he's really sweet and kind. You need to come back!"
"We need them," said Lora, 40. "It's that time: We need them again. We're happy to see them. If you're a native New Yorker then you know."
Sliwa, a former Republican mayoral candidate, was flipping burgers as night manager at a Bronx McDonald's when he founded the group in 1979 amid horrific subway violence at the time.
This weekend Sliwa announced that he was taking his volunteers back into the transit system following the horrifying arson death of a homeless woman on an F train in Brooklyn earlier this month.
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