June 2026

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: […]

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.

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

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,

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

The New York Knicks pulled off another victory in San Antonio on Saturday, outscoring the Spurs in the final minutes of the game to win their first championship since 1973, to the elation of fans across the city. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced soon after the win that a ticket-tape parade will be held Thursday, June

Noureddine Bitat went from the end of a 13-hour shift behind the wheel of a yellow cab to being dragged onto the street by a mob in the wake of Wednesday night’s win by the Knicks — then watched helplessly as the taxi was trashed. The 59-year-old Algerian cabbie became a target of the wild

BANG, BANG — and it’s Knicks in five! The New York Knicks secured their first NBA championship since 1973 late Saturday, after beating the San Antonio Spurs in Texas in Game 5 of the best-of-7 finals, 94-90.  Their victory sent fans into a state of exhilaration following an epic postseason run that brought New Yorkers together

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