{"id":259701,"date":"2026-06-08T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259701\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:29:08","slug":"as-the-90-degree-sun-blared-in-midtown-manhattan-last-friday-a-crowd-of-dozens-flooded-the-entrance-of-madison-square-garden-not-for-a-concert-or-a-game-but-for-merch-for-those-unwilling-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259701\/","title":{"rendered":"As the 90 degree sun blared in Midtown Manhattan last Friday, a crowd of dozens flooded the entrance of Madison Square Garden\u2014not for a concert or a game, but for merch. For those unwilling to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attributed-text-segment-list__content text-color-text !text-sm whitespace-pre-wrap break-words&#10;        attributed-text-segment-list__content-truncated\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test-id=\"main-feed-activity-card__commentary\">As the 90 degree sun blared in Midtown Manhattan last Friday, a crowd of dozens flooded the entrance of Madison Square Garden\u2014not for a concert or a game, but for merch.<\/p>\n<p>For those unwilling to brave the long lines, or spend at least $60 for an official Knicks shirt, an entire ecosystem is taking shape beyond the Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the origin of the designs, Knicks fans are fully embracing the offshoot product lines emerging throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mariajosegutierrez-chavez?trk=public_post-text\" target=\"_self\" data-tracking-control-name=\"public_post-text\" data-tracking-will-navigate=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Guti\u00e9rrez Ch\u00e1vez<\/a> has more on how &#8220;Knicksmania&#8221; has affected the supplies of team merchandise citywide: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redir\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit%2Ely%2F3QcjWD1&amp;urlhash=MyVu&amp;trk=public_post-text\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-tracking-control-name=\"public_post-text\" data-tracking-will-navigate=\"\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3QcjWD1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      \u2026more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the 90 degree sun blared in Midtown Manhattan last Friday, a crowd of dozens flooded the entrance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-259701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259701","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=259701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}