A Day After Knicks’ Crowning, New Yorkers Keep the Party Going

June 14, 2026, 8:25 PM UTC

New Yorkers across the city woke on Sunday to an eerie calm and likely a pounding headache.

On St. Marks Place, a three-block stretch in Manhattan’s East Village that’s served as a gathering spot for centuries, empty beer cans and trees streamed with toilet paper were the only evidence of Saturday night’s mania. Just hours earlier, on the now-still, sunny street, thousands were celebrating after a final buzzer signaled the end of the New York Knicks’ 53-year championship drought.

Some scaled a several-story-tall scaffolding to get a better view of the impromptu jubilee, which included a trumpeter playing alongside ...

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