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“Mayor Dracula” Christine Quinn hid in the shadows of City Hall yesterday — lamenting that her vamp-y image was haunting her on the city streets.
“I’m trying to avoid newsstands,” the Democratic mayoral candidate admitted in a radio interview with WOR’s John Gambling after a magazine image of her looking like a cape-wearing vampire was reproduced on the front of yesterday’s Post.
“I assume you don’t walk around in that outfit with a turned-up collar looking like Elvira,” Gambling quipped about the gothic portrait, which first appeared on the cover of New York magazine. The image was so unusual, The Post dubbed her “Mayor Dracula.”
Quinn told Gambling, “It’s awkward looking at yourself everywhere,” and joked that even her doorman was taken aback.
“I walked out of my apartment with a [hoodie] over my head and my doorman said, ‘Not so much the same’ [pointing to the cover],” Quinn said.
She joked that her new bloodsucker persona seemed to scare children.
“The kids at PS 33 had made a papier-mâché statue of me,” she added.
“The same day I was in the magazine, the papier-mâché was in the garbage.”
Quinn braved the sunlight yesterday as she headed to City Hall in a pantsuit. Fortunately for her political handlers, it made her look more like a politician than a member of The Cure.