{"id":269839,"date":"2026-06-17T18:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269839\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:07:21","slug":"giddy-knicks-fans-ready-to-pay-750-to-have-someone-hold-a-spot-for-them-at-nyc-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269839\/","title":{"rendered":"Giddy Knicks fans ready to pay $750 to have someone hold a spot for them at NYC parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knicks fans were paying through the teeth for a seat at Madison Square Garden during the teams NBA championship run \u2014 and some aren\u2019t done doling out the cash. <\/p>\n<p>Fans are willing to pay up to $750 to have someone to save them a spot along the Canyon of Heroes on Thursday when the Big Apple hometown heroes get <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/15\/us-news\/knicks-ticker-tap-championship-parade-2026-start-time-full-route-weather-forecast-schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a ticker-tape parade to celebrate<\/a>, according to market research by a soon-to-be launched online marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Knicks fever has invaded New York after the hometown heroes won their first NBA title in 53 years. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Fans are willing to pay up to $750 for someone to hold a spot for them at the Knicks ticker-tape parade on Thursday. Airtasker<\/p>\n<p>Airtasker, which started an NYC pilot program in December, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/tasks\/wait-in-line-for-knicks-parade-from-12-8-x01kv6nharvanzkvs8x6s7xyh5v\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one fan asked for someone<\/a> \u201cto wait in line for three spots on Broadway and Barclay for the Knicks parade\u201d from midnight to 8 a.m. on Thursday, and was willing to pay $750 for the service. <\/p>\n<p>Another fan had a more reasonable budget, offering $100, but leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/tasks\/save-me-a-spot-for-the-knicks-parade-x01kv8c9mkqfv5a0nded6a9a7nb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cmake an offer\u201d<\/a> option open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a huge Knicks fan and want to attend the parade, but I need someone to get there early and grab me a spot near City Hall,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p>A rep for Airtasker said data shows that basketball-related requests for local services have doubled in the US over the past year and quadrupled in New York \u2014 peaking during the Knicks playoff run. <\/p>\n<p>The Knicks five-game win over the San Antonio Spurs was the teams first title since 1973. Charles Wenzelberg \/ NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Most of those are for pro hoops installation and basketball coaching services. <\/p>\n<p>But with the Knicks historic playoff run bringing the first NBA title to the Big Apple in 53 years, the city\u2019s ticker-tape parade on Thursday has become another must-see \u2014 and hatched a new cottage industry.<\/p>\n<p>Other online marketplace sites were also willing to offer the service.<\/p>\n<p>A request on taskrabbit for someone to save a parade spot yielded a long list of folks who would save a spot for anywhere from $29 to $83 per hour. <\/p>\n<p>The ticker-tape parade is scheduled to kick off at Battery Park at 10 a.m., with a route down the Canyon of Heroes and ending with a ceremony at City Hall. Access points to the parade will open up at 6 a.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knicks fans were paying through the teeth for a seat at Madison Square Garden during the teams NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,37011,80162,9,1104,56,63,65,64,273,58],"class_list":["post-269839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-parades","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269839","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=269839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}