{"id":266400,"date":"2026-06-14T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266400\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:12:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-manhattan-descends-into-chaos-as-knicks-fans-flood-streets-after-championship-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266400\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Manhattan Descends Into Chaos As Knicks Fans Flood Streets After Championship Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Crowds poured into Manhattan streets late Saturday night after the New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 to win the NBA championship, with celebrations quickly escalating into chaotic scenes.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As fans flooded the city, NYPD officers were deployed across Manhattan to help control the massive crowds. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Video from the scene shows officers lined up in what appeared to be riot gear.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One hectic incident unfolded outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42nd Street, where a school bus was set on fire after fans climbed on top of it.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire broke out shortly after the Knicks secured the title, though it remains unclear how the blaze started or who was responsible.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News12 reached out to NYPD for more information and is waiting to hear back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crowds poured into Manhattan streets late Saturday night after the New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-266400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266400","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=266400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}