People mounted school buses in Times Square, sweated as they flowed en masse down Eighth Avenue, and screamed and lit fireworks in the streets.<\/p>\n
Dogs wore orange and blue, and children stayed up long past their bedtimes.<\/p>\n
The Knicks had won their first N.B.A. championship in more than 50 years, and the city welcomed it in true New York fashion: extravagantly.<\/p>\n
Cars honked as traffic on Fifth Avenue was gridlocked with marching fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet’s go Knicks!\u201d they roared.<\/p>\n
Thousands packed into a watch party at Plaza33 outside Madison Square Garden, shouting and crying as the final seconds of the decisive Game 5 against the San Antonio Spurs ticked away. Steven Silfa of the Bronx lingered for the trophy ceremony on the big screen, just to stay in the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Knicks \u2014 my whole life, I\u2019ve never seen anything like this,\u201d Mr. Silfa, 37, said as Frank Sinatra\u2019s voiced boomed over the loudspeakers.<\/p>\n
The city has been turned upside down.<\/p>\n
In Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, Joey Dehnert and his wife, Jill Dehnert, woke up their 5-year-old son, Albie, as they struggled to contain their excitement after the Knicks won.<\/p>\n
The young family left their apartment and joined the legion of fans in orange and blue singing and dancing at a pop-up block party. Mr. Dehnert propped Albie on his shoulders.<\/p>\n
Asked how he felt after he being awakened from a deep slumber \u2014 something the Knicks\u2019 long-suffering fans can relate to \u2014 Albie said, \u201cVery happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People mounted school buses in Times Square, sweated as they flowed en masse down Eighth Avenue, and screamed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33752,4567,2949,18041,101097,72891,67480,85975,8406,59471,222,28924,43405,11815,78318,9,11,1104,10,49,51,50,56,103108,1921,5358,9138,88569,25965,102939],"class_list":["post-266571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-astoria-queens","tag-basketball","tag-bronx-nyc","tag-brooklyn-nyc","tag-bryant-park-manhattan","tag-central-park-manhattan","tag-fans-persons","tag-fifth-avenue-manhattan","tag-fireworks","tag-harlem-manhattan","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-manhattan-nyc","tag-midtown-area-manhattan","tag-national-basketball-assn","tag-nba-championship","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-ny","tag-prospect-heights-brooklyn","tag-queens-nyc","tag-radio-city-music-hall","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-times-square-and-42nd-street-manhattan","tag-west-village-manhattan","tag-wollman-rink-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266571","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=266571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}