{"id":241698,"date":"2026-05-23T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241698\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:45:11","slug":"the-brooklyn-sports-bar-where-spike-lee-mamdani-and-superfans-mingle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241698\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn sports bar where Spike Lee, Mamdani and superfans mingle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LTID3X7ZEZCUVKANNHVHBL4LMU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NEW YORK \u2014 He was still a block away, but already he could see it in the distance, a swarm of red jerseys surrounding his sports bar.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ILNOSODR6BBEXGPLMZMPOUWSNY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Marc Jean, a lifelong New York Knicks fan, watches every game at FancyFree, an airy Brooklyn bar on a bustling corner a few blocks from Barclays Center, home, mostly, to the WNBA\u2019s Liberty. Jean is 40, which means for most of his life, seats at a Knicks bar have not been hard to come by. But Tuesday was Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 He was still a block away, but already he could see it in the distance,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-241698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}