Key Points
- Mayor Mamdani and NYC DOT are temporarily co-naming Manhattan streets for each champion Knick
- Each blue-and-orange sign matches a street number to the player's jersey number
- The signs run along Sixth and Seventh Avenues and stay up for four weeks
- The Knicks won their first title in 53 years on a 16-3 postseason run
New York is turning its street grid into a victory lap. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYC DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn announced Monday that every member of the champion New York Knicks will be honored with a temporary street co-naming in Manhattan, with each blue-and-orange sign placed so the cross street's number matches the player's jersey number — Josh Hart at West 3rd, Jalen Brunson at West 11th, Karl-Anthony Towns at West 32nd.
The signs run up Sixth and Seventh Avenues, forming what the city is calling a championship route through the heart of Manhattan, and each will stay up for four weeks. It is the latest civic flourish from a new mayor who has made the Knicks' first title in 53 years — closed out on a 16-3 postseason run — into the early signature of his term, following the ticker-tape parade and Key to the City ceremony that capped the Game 5 win over the Spurs.
The full list of co-namings
- Sixth Avenue and West Houston Street — Jordan Clarkson #00
- Sixth Avenue and Bleecker Street — Dillon Jones #1
- Sixth Avenue and Minetta Lane — Miles "Deuce" McBride #2
- Sixth Avenue and West 3rd Street — Josh Hart #3
- Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street — Pacôme Dadiet #4
- Sixth Avenue and Washington Place — Jose Alvarado #5
- Sixth Avenue and West 8th Street — OG Anunoby #8
- Sixth Avenue and West 9th Street — Kevin McCullar Jr. #9
- Seventh Avenue South and West 11th Street — Jalen Brunson #11
- Seventh Avenue and West 13th Street — Tyler Kolek #13
- Seventh Avenue and West 20th Street — Jeremy Sochan #20
- Seventh Avenue and West 23rd Street — Mitchell Robinson #23
- Seventh Avenue and West 25th Street — Mikal Bridges #25
- Seventh Avenue and West 32nd Street — Karl-Anthony Towns #32
- Sixth Avenue and West 44th Street — Landry Shamet #44
- Seventh Avenue and West 50th Street — Trey Jemison III #50
- Seventh Avenue and West 51st Street — Mohamed Diawara #51
- Seventh Avenue and West 55th Street — Ariel Hukporti #55
The read
Co-namings are usually reserved for the dead and the canonized — civil-rights leaders, fallen officers, neighborhood institutions. Handing them to an active roster, keyed to jersey numbers and clustered on two avenues, turns a bureaucratic honor into a walkable piece of fan culture, and gives a first-year mayor a month-long, citywide backdrop that costs almost nothing and photographs itself. In his statement, Mamdani leaned into exactly that civic framing:
"This championship is bigger than basketball. It represents what our city is capable of when the odds are stacked against us. For as long as we live, every New Yorker will remember the feeling of our city coming together — not because of tragedy or adversity, but out of joy and happiness. This championship belongs to every fan who packed our parks and plazas and every neighbor who high-fived a stranger after another impossible comeback. 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. 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."
Source: NYC Mayor's Office, amNewYork, NY1
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