New Yorkers joined Friday in aiming a big Bronx cheer at Sen. Ted Cruz.
“What I really want to say, you couldn’t put in the paper,” Robert Potter, 78, told The Post as he sold hats and scarves on Broadway and 65th Street.
Being a lifelong citizen of the City that Never Minces Words, he said it anyway: “Cruz is full of s- -t.”
A day after the GOP presidential candidate doubled down on sneering at “New York values” during Thursday night’s debate, Apple fans in throngs voiced their opposition.
By nightfall, the hashtag #newyorkvalues had logged more than 70,000 tweets, the vast majority hailing New Yorkers for our diversity, energy and generosity.
“New York City is the hub of the universe,” pizzeria owner Michael Caspare, 59, said amid the baking pies at his Sunnyside Pizza shop on Queens Boulevard.
“We’re hardworking, the hardest working in the world . . . He should come walk the streets of New York to see what it’s all about.”
“New York City is America,” carriage driver Paul McDaid of Queens said as he waited with his horse on Central Park South.
“There’s a reason people come to New York City,” said McDaid, who moved here from Donegal, Ireland, 29 years ago.
“It’s vibrant and exciting, and it’s safe. It’s the best city in the world.
“As Frank Sinatra said, it’s so good they named it twice.”
“I talk to people, they smile back,” Angel Saez said, as he sold tickets for a hop-on, hop-off tourist bus in Times Square.
“It has so many kinds of cultures,” Mohammed Abdelhalim said from his halal food truck at Sixth Avenue and 43rd Street.
“It’s like you live in a whole world together.”
Additional reporting by Laura Italiano