{"id":270894,"date":"2026-06-18T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270894\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:01:28","slug":"knicks-parade-some-trains-skipping-additional-lower-manhattan-stops-as-fans-flock-to-ticker-tape-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270894\/","title":{"rendered":"KNICKS PARADE: Some trains skipping additional Lower Manhattan stops as fans flock to ticker-tape celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Subway commuters experienced some trains skipping stations on Thursday morning, as throngs of Knicks fans flooded the system to get to Lower Manhattan\u2019s Canyon of Heroes for the team\u2019s championship ticker-tape parade.<\/p>\n

REUTERS\/Eduardo Munoz<\/p>\n

Subway commuters experienced some trains skipping stations on Thursday morning, as throngs of Knicks fans flooded the system to get to Lower Manhattan\u2019s Canyon of Heroes for the team\u2019s championship ticker-tape parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MTA<\/a> spokesperson Aaron Donovan said some trains have at times skipped as many as five stations in Lower Manhattan at the request of the NYPD, due to the overwhelming crowds of revelers. He did not specify which stations were skipped besides those the MTA had already planned not to run service to before Thursday: the City Hall R and W and Wall Street 4 and 5 stations.<\/p>\n

But according to the MTA\u2019s website, at around 10 a.m., some R and W trains were bypassing Rector St in both directions, some 4 and 5 trains were going past Bowling Green and Fulton St in both directions, and some A and C trains were skipping Chambers St in both directions. Additionally, the E train was suspended between West 4 St and World Trade Center.<\/p>\n

Donovan said the bypasses have been \u201cshort-term in nature\u201d and were quickly lifted.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cService is running,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople are getting where they need to go.\u201d
\n\"KnicksKnicks fans heading into Lower Manhattan to watch the ticker-tape parade on June 18, 2026.Photo by Dean Moses\n<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in a social media post<\/a>, warned New Yorkers about the changes in a 9:53 a.m. social media post. He also noted that bus service is suspended in \u201cmuch\u201d of Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a big crowd here celebrating our Knicks,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBus service is suspended in much of lower Manhattan. Subways are skipping some stations in the area.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The mayor directed New Yorkers to text NOTIFYNYC to 692-692 and check mta.info<\/a> for the most up-to-date information.\n<\/p>\n

Videos and photos posted to social media Thursday morning showed subway stations, including the atrium at the Fulton Center station<\/a> and the platform at 34 St Penn Station,<\/a> packed wall-to-wall with fans decked-out in Knicks gear.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the MTA shared at 9:27 a.m.<\/a> that Chair and CEO Janno Lieber, NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow and MTA Security Chief Michael Kemper were monitoring \u201cconditions in Lower Manhattan to keep as much subway service as possible running with parade related crowding.\u201d The post included a photo of the three looking at a wall of monitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subway commuters experienced some trains skipping stations on Thursday morning, as throngs of Knicks fans flooded the system…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[104469,103047,75,84,83,22925,141,9,24,63,103,104470],"class_list":["post-270894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-aaron-donovan","tag-knicks-parade","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-stops-skipped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270894","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=270894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}