{"id":281614,"date":"2026-06-29T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281614\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:29:10","slug":"mamdani-honors-jalen-brunson-knicks-by-renaming-manhattan-streets-after-players-following-nba-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281614\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Honors Jalen Brunson, Knicks by Renaming Manhattan Streets After Players Following NBA Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2026\/06\/mayor-mamdani-honors-2026-knicks-championship-team-with-temporar\">announced<\/a> Monday that streets across Manhattan will be temporarily renamed to honor members of the NBA championship-winning New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Eighteen different players, from Finals MVP Jalen Brunson on down to Dillon Jones received the distinction:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;These street signs are a tribute to the players who delivered the championship generations of fans waited their whole lives to see and the city that stood behind them every step of the way,&#8221; Mamdani said. &#8220;Long after the confetti is gone, New Yorkers will be able to walk these streets and remember the team that brought our city so much joy. Knicks in five.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">To coincide with the Knicks&#8217; title parade, the mayor previously rechristened the team&#8217;s path down Broadway as &#8220;Champions Way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Mamdani spoke at the event and delivered a passionate speech detailing all of the heartbreak that preceded New York&#8217;s long-awaited triumph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The new, temporary street signs reflect each player&#8217;s jersey number. You can find Brunson&#8217;s name at Seventh Avenue South and West 11 Street, for example. Karl-Anthony Towns is spotlighted at Seventh Avenue and West 32\u202fStreet. Finals hero OG Anunoby got Sixth Avenue and West 8\u202fStreet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that streets across Manhattan will be temporarily renamed to honor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-281614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281614","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=281614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}