{"id":280785,"date":"2026-06-29T00:39:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280785\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:39:46","slug":"5-knicks-colored-nyc-trash-cans-up-for-grabs-from-sanitation-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280785\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Knicks-colored NYC trash cans up for grabs from Sanitation Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Department of Sanitation is giving away five <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=x2_1MoFfIk6pWxXaZlE776Nvl1-PwtJHqF-O1xv82q1UQVk5WVdHWExIUEIxRDJaUU9IUTVRNVo2RC4u&amp;route=shorturl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">commemorative Knicks trash bins<\/a> just like the one a former J.P. Morgan Chase employee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mel_aston\/video\/7652915267034533151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was filmed<\/a> emptying and stealing after the team won its first NBA title in 53 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo need to Knick a bin!\u201d city officials wrote in a promotion inviting New Yorkers to <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=x2_1MoFfIk6pWxXaZlE776Nvl1-PwtJHqF-O1xv82q1UQVk5WVdHWExIUEIxRDJaUU9IUTVRNVo2RC4u&amp;route=shorturl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">enter a drawing<\/a> for one of those commemorative orange and blue trash receptacles.<\/p>\n<p>The contest for the 28-inch tall baskets that weigh 30 pounds ends at 5 p.m. on July 3. The diameter of each bucket is 21.5 inches, which is roughly 3 inches wider than<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimensions.com\/element\/basketball-hoop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> a basketball hoop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bins are the same as the ones New Yorkers see on street corners every day.<\/p>\n<p>DSNY blew the whistle on the woman\u2019s move, dubbing it \u201ca technical foul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFouling up our sidewalks and stealing public property should always be out of bounds in New York City,\u201d Sanitation Commissioner Gregory Anderson said in a statement announcing the giveaway. \u201cThere is no need to lift bins off the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video of a woman identified by media outlets as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/24\/nyregion\/knicks-trash-can-jpmorgan-chase.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Angie B\u00e1ez<\/a>, 40, dumping trash onto a city street to abscond with a Knicks-colored trash can went viral in the aftermath of the Knicks\u2019 Finals victory over the San Antonio Spurs. City officials said<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCSanitation\/status\/2069805284654972937?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> the bin was returned<\/a> and its alleged thief paid a fine. J.P. Morgan reportedly said the woman is no longer with the company.<\/p>\n<p>The team celebrated its victory with a June 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/06\/18\/new-york-celebrates-the-knicks-with-ticker-tape-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ticker-tape parade<\/a> in lower Manhattan. Team owner James Dolan said his squad will also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/06\/25\/jalen-brunson-knicks-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">visit the White House<\/a> to mark its historic achievement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlyny.com\/products\/dsny-home-waste-basket-2026-champion-edition?variant=47105234468948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Smaller replicas<\/a> of the city\u2019s Knicks-inspired garbage bins are selling for $168 on onlyny.com.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Department of Sanitation is giving away five commemorative Knicks trash bins just like the one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107756,102442,82284,7667,10663,9,56,63,65,64,107755],"class_list":["post-280785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-angie-baez","tag-contest","tag-drawing","tag-garbage-bin","tag-knicks","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-trash-can"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280785","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=280785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}