Looking to get a seat to one of the most highly anticipated City Hall ceremonies NYC has ever seen? Now’s your chance.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a lottery for 600 tickets to the ceremony celebrating the Knicks’ NBA championship, the team’s first title since 1973.<\/p>\n
“From packed watch parties in our parks to joyous celebrations that spilled out onto our streets, this championship belongs to New York City,\u201d Mamdani said in a press release. “The Knicks brought together New Yorkers from every borough and every walk of life. That\u2019s why we\u2019re making these tickets free and accessible \u2013 so working-class people have a chance to be part of this historic moment and celebrate the team that brought a championship home.”<\/p>\n
The lottery opened Tuesday night and will stay open until 11 a.m. Wednesday. There will be 300 winners selected, with each lucky fan getting two tickets, according to the city. <\/p>\n
The sweepstakes can be entered at this link through the NBA.<\/a> Winners will be notified after the lottery closes.<\/p>\n The ceremony begins at noon on Thursday at City Hall Plaza in lower Manhattan. In addition to speeches and musical performances, there will also be a special presentation to honor the championship season. Mamdani will be giving the Knicks with keys to the city.<\/p>\n If you don’t get a ticket, you can still be one of the thousands of fans expected to line the streets of lower Manhattan to celebrate the Knicks in the ticker-tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes. The parade will kick off near Battery Park at 10 a.m., then will travel north along Broadway before ending at City Hall.<\/p>\n Players and coaches will be joined by elected officials and other special guests along the parade route, which is free and open to all. But anyone looking for a good spot should get there early, with crowds expected to begin forming at least two hours before the start of the parade. And it may be a good idea to bring a poncho or an umbrella.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking to get a seat to one of the most highly anticipated City Hall ceremonies NYC has ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,1999,361,99],"class_list":["post-708740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}