{"id":874655,"date":"2026-06-18T00:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/874655\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:15:18","slug":"mayor-zohran-mamdani-announces-ticker-tape-parade-and-ceremony-to-celebrate-knicks-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/874655\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces ticker-tape parade and ceremony to celebrate Knicks championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2239401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280275555-scaled-e1781421768274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1442\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK \u2014 <\/strong>After the New York Knicks clinched the National Basketball Association (NBA) Championship tonight, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced that New York City will host a ticker-tape parade and City Hall ceremony honoring the team and awarding Keys to the City on Thursday, June 18.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration will mark the first ticker-tape parade in Knicks history and honor a team that delivered an NBA championship to a city that has waited generations for this moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">See you there, Knicks fam \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nXC0w5gRTs\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/nXC0w5gRTs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zMY7IDBhOI\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zMY7IDBhOI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nyknicks\/status\/2067276425435005365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor more than 50 years, New Yorkers have waited for this moment. Through near misses, heartbreak and a hope that every year could be our year, this city never stopped believing in the Knicks. And this team fulfilled that hope with grit, resilience and heart \u2014 just like the five boroughs itself,\u201d said\u00a0Mayor Mamdani. \u201cNew Yorkers have cheered for our team from packed living rooms in the Bronx to watch parties in Brooklyn, from bars in Queens to Staten Island to Manhattan, and Madison Square Garden itself. Now it\u2019s time for our city to celebrate together. Bing bong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mamdani also announced that City Hall and municipal buildings across the city will be illuminated in blue and orange on Thursday, June 18 to celebrate the victory.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to City Hall, the following City buildings will also be illuminated in blue and orange on the night of Thursday, June 18 in honor of the New York Knicks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building: 1 Centre Street, New York, NY 10007<\/li>\n<li>Brooklyn Borough Hall: 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional buildings may be lit as well.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 After the New York Knicks clinched the National Basketball Association (NBA) Championship tonight, Mayor Zohran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":874656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,355553,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-874655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-knicks-parade","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116768233453522551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}