{"id":254428,"date":"2026-06-03T23:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254428\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:04:40","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-new-york-knicks-postseason-generates-202-million-in-local-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254428\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | New York Knicks Postseason Generates 202 Million In Local Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tonight is Game 1 of the NBA Finals as the New York Knicks take on the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It is the first time the Knicks will make an appearance in the Finals in 27 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As Knicks fans have been celebrating every moment of this NBA playoff season run, local businesses are also given a huge boost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Franklin Park, in Crown Heights, is one of many Brooklyn bars that have surely benefited from this historic run the Knicks are on in this postseason. For them, it\u2019s been a busy few months to say the least.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;This place stays kind of busy,\u201d said a bartender. \u201cIt&#8217;s just a staple in the neighborhood of Crown Heights, but it&#8217;s definitely hard to find a seat on game night. It\u2019s still fun, I get to watch, give those high fives while making some money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani, along with the New York City Economic Development Corporation, announced that the New York Knicks&#8217; 2026 NBA postseason run has generated an estimated $202 million in economic activity from home games played so far.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As the Knicks return tonight to the NBA finals, there is potential to generate an additional $263 million, bringing a total of $465 million in economic activity to the city &#8211; supporting local businesses and creating jobs and economic opportunity across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight is Game 1 of the NBA Finals as the New York Knicks take on the San Antonio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-254428","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\/254428","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=254428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}