{"id":2148,"date":"2026-06-14T22:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:34:46","slug":"an-nypd-officer-said-i-could-climb-a-street-sign-after-the-knicks-won-the-nba-finals-this-is-your-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"An NYPD Officer Said I Could Climb A Street Sign After The Knicks Won The NBA Finals: \u2018This Is Your Chance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe last place I expected to hear people talking about the Knicks was the Tony Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2146\">Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Says He\u2019d \u2018Way Rather\u2019 Have a Knicks Championship Than an Oscar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tYet there I was, interviewing Daniel Radcliffe on the red carpet and asking him about the energy in New York. Radcliffe, of course, knew I was talking about the Knicks\u2019 playoff run (though maybe I shouldn\u2019t say of course: I later asked Lorne Michaels the same question and it went right over his head).<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe last time Radcliffe witnessed a major New York sports team win a championship was when the New York Giants won the Super Bowl in 2012.\u00a0 And he\u2019s not alone \u2014 the entire city has been waiting that long. To put that in perspective, that was less than a year after the final \u201cHarry Potter\u201d film was released.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cAnd I\u2019ve obviously never been in New York for the Knicks getting even close,\u201d Radcliffe continued, \u201clet alone doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe \u201cobvious\u201d comes from the fact that the Knicks last reached the playoffs 15 months before Radcliffe was cast as The Boy Who Lived. And their last championship? J.K. Rowling was even younger than Radcliffe was when he auditioned for Harry Potter.<\/p>\n<p>The drought only made this run more extraordinary. Every game in the Finals was defined by razor-thin margins. And the 29-point comeback in Game 4 that culminated with OG Anunoby\u2019s thrilling tip-in will go down as, according to one of my closest friends and Yankees broadcaster Emmanuel Berbari, \u201cThe top two or three greatest moments in New York sports history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring the final game, which we watched with friends at The Rutherford across from Madison Square Garden, I raved to him about how I haven\u2019t been this invested in a sports team since the 2015 Mets (shoutout to DeGrom, Syndergaard and Bartolo effin\u2019 Colon) because of the stakes at hand. And then they won. <\/p>\n<p>What followed, which I\u2019ll chronicle to the best of my ability, is a night I never even imagined I\u2019d witness in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201c<em>What happens [if they win]?<\/em>\u201d Radcliffe questioned T-minus six days until the big win. \u201c<em>Is it going to be like what happened in Philadelphia? Cars on fire and flipping stuff? Let\u2019s see.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMoments after the Knicks\u2019 win, The Rutherford blasted Frank Sinatra\u2019s \u201cTheme From New York, New York\u201d and \u201cEmpire State of Mind\u201d by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. The people loved it and sang along. Classic. Nostalgic. Expected. Wouldn\u2019t exactly say that for how the rest of the night ended up.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tImmediately, people in the rooftop section of The Rutherford started smashing glasses and beer bottles onto the ground. I was shocked by how calm the security personnel and patrolling NYPD officers remained.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI\u2019ll never forget the expression on one officer\u2019s face. He stood as still as a statue, bug-eyed, watching five twenty-somethings smash glass after glass before softly suggesting: \u201cYou don\u2019t have to smash that many.\u201d A bar employee then swept forward like a pawn on a chessboard and started sweeping the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I was eager to explore the chaos unfolding in the streets. I grabbed my two friends and we ventured outside the barricades, not realizing there would be no realistic way to return to The Rutherford with the others. Knicks fans were being guided like livestock through Midtown, with police officers lining the streets and metal barricades blocking off entire sections of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn an effort to \u201cteleport\u201d to a less congested area, we ducked into a subway entrance and cut through Penn Station. The station\u2019s cavernous corridors created the illusion that the crowds weren\u2019t all that bad, but that quickly changed once we tried to get back outside. Nearly every exit was closed, including the grand escalators leading up to Madison Square Garden. Police directed thousands of people toward a single exit, creating a bottleneck unlike anything I\u2019d ever seen in Penn Station in all my life living in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The two friends I was with decided to cut their losses and catch the train back home, even after I was insistent on staying to \u201cwitness history.\u201d Suddenly alone, I started questioning my own decision not to head back uptown.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs I shuffled towards the exit, squished like a sardine between thousands of sweaty Knicks fans, the cops had blocked off the final portal to the streets, sending people back the other way and creating a wave of mass confusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCooking in a claustrophobic person\u2019s worst nightmare, I felt a bit of anxiety quell. Looking at the emotionless expressions on the cops\u2019 faces, I started imagining worst-case scenarios. One confrontation. One bad decision. One spark. I could already picture the CNN breaking news alert.<\/p>\n<p>But once I managed to break free from the main current of foot traffic, I forced myself to stop and wait for the exit to reopen. As I stood there, I started noticing the acts of kindness around me: teenagers and twenty-somethings on the verge of panic, being comforted by friends, partners and strangers. Little signs of humanity appeared in every direction, quietly defusing what could have become a disaster instigated by fear.<\/p>\n<p>And once I finally made it out onto the streets, I kept noticing the same thing. Amid the chaos, people were patient with one another. Friendly. Understanding. Bumping into someone wasn\u2019t met with frustration, but with a grin and a comment about the Knicks, as if the entire city had agreed to give each other a pass from the stereotypical crankiness for one single night.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2144\">UFC Freedom 250 Livestream: Here\u2019s Where to Watch the Topuria vs. Gaethje Title Fight Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe whole city felt like it was riding on a collective high. Maybe it was all the second-hand smoke, but there was a palpable magic in the air that\u2019s hard to describe without sounding corny. When tens of thousands of people are sharing the same emotion at the same time, it becomes contagious.<\/p>\n<p>As I made my way east, I stumbled into Herald Square: the epicenter of the madness. I couldn\u2019t believe what I was seeing. Dozens of people hung from scaffolding, scaled stoplights and street signs, and turned every object within reach into their own personal playground. One guy was multiple stories up the side of a ventilation shaft. Another, wearing a plain white T-shirt, sat hunched inside, watching someone climb past his apartment window.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKnicks fans also held impromptu pull-up competitions on pedestrian signs. Some of those perched atop the street poles formed circles with their arms, turning themselves into makeshift basketball hoops while people below launched shots toward them. It took a while, but when someone finally sank one, the crowd erupted.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA pair of men sprinting across the top of the scaffolding unleashed clouds of smoke from fire extinguishers, creating the illusion that the city was on fire. Below them, a man and his girlfriend stomped on the roof of a Hyundai Tucson. Its windshield had been shattered, and every car nearby was coated in a layer of spray paint, dust and fire-extinguisher residue.<\/p>\n<p>Just across the street, fans had claimed an enormous yellow tow truck as their own. They stood atop it, waving flags and chanting into the night. At one point, a glass bottle came flying from above. It sailed over the crowd before shattering on the pavement below, just inches in between a group of people unaware of the situation. For a split second, the celebration froze. Then, in a hivemind-like fashion, dozens of New Yorkers instinctively started shouting at the young guy who threw the bottle.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit \u2014 wearing tinted hippie glasses, a white tank top and a flower-print skirt \u2014 responded with a sheepish shrug and a smile. Then, almost as quickly as it had begun, the moment passed. No fight. No retaliation. The crowd returned to celebrating. It was a pattern I would witness throughout the night: moments that seemed destined to spiral that were instead absorbed by a city operating on a strange combination of adrenaline, joy and mutual understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhat made all of this behavior even more surreal was that it wasn\u2019t taking place unsupervised. A battalion of unarmored NYPD officers stood on the perimeter of Herald Square watching the madness unfold. In the three hours I spent in the streets, the only time I personally witnessed officers intervening was to help vehicles navigate through the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cHold on, hold on, hold on,\u201d an officer said to a biker trying to cross the barrier entrance. He pointed toward an approaching vehicle. \u201cYou don\u2019t see the car coming through?\u201d Then he smiled, as if letting all the air out of his remarks. \u201cYou\u2019ve gotta be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In my conversations with the officers, who were friendly and talkative but constantly alert, they told me they were enjoying the spectacle and were primarily there to keep people safe.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen to all these people climbing the stoplights?\u201d I asked one younger officer (who, I must say, had a killer mustache). \u201cAre they going to get arrested?\u201d Under New York law, climbing a traffic-light pole or perching on its crossbars is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail, a $1,000 fine, or both.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe officer smiled. He could tell I wasn\u2019t asking out of mere curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s funny. This is probably the only night they\u2019d ever get away with this, right?\u201d I asked again.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cYou know,\u201d he said, glancing back and forth, \u201cthis is your chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So there I was, perched halfway up a street sign, watching tens of thousands of New Yorkers bask in the glory of controlled chaos.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe New York Post published a sensational Instagram graphic this morning highlighting the 63 arrests, four stabbings and one shooting reported across the city after the Knicks won \u2014 set against images of fire and smoke that suggested widespread mayhem \u2014 but that\u2019s not accurate to what I saw go down.<\/p>\n<p>What I witnessed was a city letting loose after a long-awaited cultural victory. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers pushed the boundaries of acceptable behavior, and the NYPD, recognizing the moment for what it was, focused on guiding the chaos rather than suppressing it.<\/p>\n<p>For years, New York has been portrayed by outsiders as a crime-ridden city in decline. And in the years following George Floyd\u2019s murder and other deeply troubling incidents, many Americans (including myself, admittedly) have come to view police officers through an equally rigid lens.<\/p>\n<p>As I was thinking about this, I walked past a young Black man in street clothes shake hands with an Irish police officer. The two were bantering back and forth with smiles on their faces before continuing on their separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA few minutes later, I climbed onto the stone wall in Greeley Square and sat beside one of the bronze eagle statues overlooking the crowd. After hours of wandering through the streets, it felt like the perfect place to take one final photo before trekking back up to the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cYo, you almost just stepped on my fucking head,\u201d a voice barked from below.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI looked down. A twenty-something dude in a blue Knicks jersey was staring back at me. I apologized. His face softened. \u201cIt\u2019s okay.\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s fucking go Knicks. That\u2019s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfter a few moments of silence, he looked up again. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty great view, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2141\">Alessandro Nivola on Playing Calvin Klein in \u2018Love Story\u2019 and the Todd Haynes Movie He Says Could\u2019ve Won Michelle Williams an Oscar<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks won a championship for the first time in 53 years. 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