NYPD deploying 10,000 officers for historic Knicks championship parade

The New York Police Department plans to deploy 10,000 constabulary officers to unafraid the New York Knicks’ ticker-tape parade connected Thursday arsenic the metropolis celebrates the team’s archetypal rubric successful 53 years.

The Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs successful 5 games to seizure the NBA championship. It volition the archetypal parade for the franchise arsenic the metropolis didn’t propulsion a parade for erstwhile the squad won doubly successful the 1970s.

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New York Knicks fans respond during Game One of the 2026 NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs astatine Frost Bank Center successful San Antonio, Texas, connected June 3, 2026. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE)

"There volition beryllium performances, determination volition beryllium New Yorkers, determination volition beryllium the squad and determination volition beryllium history," New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday.

The parade is acceptable to commencement astatine 10 a.m. ET adjacent Battery Park and marque its mode up Broadway done the Canyon of Heroes and extremity astatine City Hall. Alicia Keys is acceptable to execute astatine the event.

"We privation radical to bask this moment," New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. "But nationalist information comes first."

Banners bent supra City Hall successful New York arsenic preparations instrumentality spot up of the New York Knicks' NBA title ticker-tape parade connected June 17, 2026. (Alyssa Goodman/AP Photo)

A thoroughfare motion speechmaking "Champions Way" is posted on Broadway, known arsenic the "Canyon of Heroes," up of the New York Knicks' ticker-tape parade successful New York connected June 17, 2026. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Knicks fans were already connected NJ Transit and PATH trains Thursday greeting to get into the metropolis arsenic officials told reveling fans to travel aboriginal and beryllium prepared.

Officials said each attendees volition beryllium screened and pens were acceptable to unfastened astatine 6 a.m. ET.

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No bags, solid oregon metallic h2o bottles, bats/batons, bicycles oregon scooters, chairs oregon coolers volition beryllium allowed successful the event. Those moving successful bureau buildings on the parade way volition beryllium capable to participate them with due recognition arsenic good arsenic those who unrecorded successful the country arsenic well.

The New York Knicks observe with the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy aft defeating the San Antonio Spurs successful Game 5 of the NBA Finals successful San Antonio connected June 13, 2026. (Darren Abate/AP)

The City Hall ceremonial volition beryllium for ticketed fans only. In summation to the supra restrictions, nary pets, backpacks, strollers, umbrellas oregon weapons volition beryllium permitted.

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Fans and residents were told that Bowling Green, Fulton, Brooklyn Bridge, Chambers and Park Place subway stations volition beryllium unfastened portion Wall Street and City Hall stops volition beryllium closed.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.