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Your Guide to the Knicks’ Historic Ticker-Tape Parade
Just before midnight on Saturday, the New York Knicks won the NBA championship for the first time in more than 50 years, transforming the city into an orange and blue utopia all weekend. While New Yorkers were still celebrating — loudly, and sometimes getting rowdy — Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a simple message to X: […]
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NYC Students Call Technical Foul Over Knicks Parade on Regents Exam Day
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The New York Knicks’ victory this weekend over the San Antonio Spurs, cementing their first NBA championship since 1973, brought joy to fans across the five boroughs. Shortly after their win, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the city will host a ticker-tape parade to honor the team. […]
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Polls Are Open, New York: What to Know About the Top House Races
It’s a battle for the soul of New York that’s created strange bedfellows, drawn national interest, and pitted rivals against each other to dramatic effect this weekend. We don’t mean the NBA Finals or the FIFA World Cup. We’re talking, of course, of this summer’s Democratic primaries. The Board of Elections reported that 31,419 voters […]
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Mamdani Meds? Think Tank Pitches City-Owned Pharmacies to Lower Drug Prices
New York should not stop at city-owned grocery stores when the need for a robust city-owned pharmacy network is even more compelling, argues a new proposal from a progressive policy group that will test the Mamdani administration’s appetite for challenging for-profit sectors of the economy. But in a twist designed to broaden the plan’s appeal, […]
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Rowdy Knicks Fans Set School Buses Ablaze as Violence Mars Post-Game Celebrations
The wheels came off during scenes of violent mayhem that followed the Knicks’ first NBA championship in more than half a century, with rowdies vandalizing MTA buses and torching shuttles used to ferry soccer fans to World Cup games, authorities said Sunday. The ruckus that resulted in more than 60 arrests, a shooting and four […]
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