{"id":598,"date":"2026-06-20T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:35:40","slug":"pencils-up-the-knicks-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Pencils Up! 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But the need for C was a matter of dispute. When Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced, shortly after the Knicks\u2019 victory, that the city would honor them with a gala parade the following Thursday morning, he quickly drew backlash: there were Regents exams scheduled to begin at 9:15 <em>A.M<\/em>. Students launched petitions for Mamdani to cancel the tests; the Queens borough president called on the schools chancellor to step in. The Mayor\u2019s hands were tied: this was state business. \u201cUnlike the executive order for bedtimes, this is something I cannot repeal,\u201d he lamented. The Mayor risked getting demerits not only from Knicks-crazed teachers but also from his next generation of constituents\u2014at least the ones studying Biology and Living Environment, which were the test subjects on parade day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The <em>FOMO<\/em> of students and proctors was not the only problem. Parade attendance was expected to be in the millions. Ten thousand cops were deployed to the financial district; access for paradegoers was limited to twenty-three checkpoints. Attendees were advised to arrive two hours early, and the test-takers had no fast-track lane to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=594\">Misery Loves Company\u2014If There Are Snacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is gonna be a <em>day<\/em>,\u201d one school worker said to a colleague just before 8 <em>A.M.<\/em> outside the Richard R. Green High School of Teaching, at Beaver Street and Broadway. Administrators worked with the focussed urgency of a rescue team: clipboards, checklists, phone calls, negotiations with barricade-minding cops. A school staffer hustled a boy in a Jalen Brunson shirt past an officer, insisting that he had a test. A bro in a white ball cap pulled a vape from his lips to call out, \u201cGood luck! You got this!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eates with police were rockier. Revellers in Knicks capes pleaded their cases fruitlessly. Miffed office workers dangled lanyards; a cop asked those without work I.D.s to show their pay stubs. So jammed were the designated viewing areas that crowds packed blocks beyond the checkpoints. Train platforms had been thronged as far east as Ronkonkoma as early as 4 <em>A.M<\/em>. During the scrum, the financial district was swarming with Knicks jerseys, honoring not only the current champs but also the beloved players who had soldiered through leaner seasons: Marbury, Ntilikina, Lin. A man in an R.\u00a0J. Barrett number boasted that his was contraband. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t get any more Knicks than wearing a bootleg,\u201d he said. He hoped to see a Duhon or a Van Horn. Everywhere, dudes remembered guys.<\/p>\n<p>In that way, Thursday was not so different from most days in the city. Life carried on, or tried to. Dentists with offices along the route rescheduled cleanings. A lot of shops didn\u2019t bother trying to open. Some storekeepers\u2019 plans were foiled. \u201cYep, just like regular,\u201d a cashier at a Century 21 on Cortlandt Street had said the day before, of the Thursday hours. The store had just kicked off a designer clearance sale. By parade time, all the entrances were shuttered with metal gates; they didn\u2019t open until 2 <em>P.M<\/em>. A clerk at A Little Shop in NYC, in the Oculus, spent the morning giving directions to confused Jerseyites looking to get to the parade from the <em>PATH<\/em> train. \u201cAll the way up,\u201d she told them.<\/p>\n<p>Some businesses explored new revenue streams. \u201cFrom now on, five dollars a pee-pee,\u201d a burly guard at an office building where passersby had sought relief said. \u201cThe other thing, twenty.\u201d Max Funland, a new second-floor arcade on Broadway, opened five hours early for two small groups that had paid to reserve seats alongside its parade-facing windows. Michael Mimoun, a thirty-nine-year-old from Brooklyn who works in property management, coughed up five hundred dollars to watch there with a group of family and friends, including two five-year-olds. He\u2019d first tried renting out a vacant office nearby: \u201cA guy quoted me, like, fifteen grand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watching from his neon-lit perch \u201cwas really weird,\u201d Mimoun said. \u201cBut it was incredible seeing our heroes go by.\u201d Shortly before the parade, his group had headed to a higher floor, where the arcade stores its claw machines\u2019 supply of stuffed toys. \u201cThere was something poetic about it,\u201d Talia Rosenthal, Mimoun\u2019s cousin, said. \u201cFifty-three years of no prizes for the Knicks, and we\u2019re surrounded by bags of them.\u201d\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=592\">Growing Up with Juneteenth<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The N.B.A. championship was a win for Mayor Mamdani, but the city\u2019s public-school kids, stuck taking their Regents exams as the ticker-tape parade thundered past their windows, weren\u2019t so sure, Dan Greene writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dept-of-hoopla"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pencils Up! 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