{"id":259639,"date":"2026-06-08T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259639\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:33:09","slug":"how-new-york-city-institutions-are-celebrating-the-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259639\/","title":{"rendered":"How New York City Institutions Are Celebrating the Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York City landmark lit up orange and blue, along with 15 other buildings.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 27 years, the Knicks are back in the Finals and New Yorkers are fired up. From Madison Square Garden to Niagara Falls, you can feel the excitement across our state,\u201d Governor Hochul said<\/a>. \u201cTo celebrate their incredible Game 1 win, we\u2019re lighting landmarks throughout New York in orange and blue. Let\u2019s go Knicks!\u201d<\/p>\n

Those buildings also lit up included: 1WTC, Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, Kosciuszko Bridge, The H. Carl McCall SUNY Building, Alfred E. Smith State Office Building, the Empire State Plaza, State Fairgrounds \u2013 Main Gate & Expo Center, Niagara Falls, The \u201cFranklin D. Roosevelt\u201d Mid-Hudson Bridge, Grand Central Terminal, Albany International Airport Gateway, MTA LIRR – East End Gateway at Penn Station, Fairport Lift Bridge over the Erie Canal, Moynihan Train Hall, and the Roosevelt Island Lighthouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City landmark lit up orange and blue, along with 15 other buildings. \u201cAfter 27 years,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[567,101012,569,83931,568,9,24,55,54,56,57826,101011,94966],"class_list":["post-259639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-067b14c9-24ec-452c-b0d0-e5495e22468a","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-read_time-3","tag-shorttitle-how-nyc-institutions-are-celebrating-the-knicks","tag-subsection-sporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259639","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=259639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}