{"id":267041,"date":"2026-06-15T04:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:35:07","slug":"school-bus-set-on-fire-as-knicks-fans-celebrate-nba-title-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267041\/","title":{"rendered":"School Bus Set on Fire as Knicks Fans Celebrate NBA Title in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A school bus was set ablaze in the early hours of Sunday, June 14, as Knicks fans flooded Times Square to celebrate their team&#8217;s NBA championship, ending a 53-year drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;People around me were all shocked,&#8221; Jack Zhang, who filmed this footage showing revelers surrounding the burning vehicle, told Storyful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the <a data-ylk=\"slk:New York Post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/14\/us-news\/knicks-fans-ignite-school-bus-on-fire\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a>, police intervened at about 2:30 am, an hour after the &#8220;school bus carnage&#8221; started. Credit: Jack Zhang via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A school bus was set ablaze in the early hours of Sunday, June 14, as Knicks fans flooded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103254,10663,75,84,83,21,9,24,63,3058],"class_list":["post-267041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-jack-zhang","tag-knicks","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-school-bus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267041","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=267041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}