Happy Monday in New York City, where everyone — from lifelong diehards to out-of-state bandwagoners to children with suspended bedtimes — is watching the Knicks tonight.
After two historic, improbable, electrifying wins in San Antonio, the city’s superheroes return to Madison Square Garden tonight, into the belly of a volcano primed to erupt. If the team wins tonight, it will all but seal the first championship victory for the Knicks since 1973. Teams that hold a 3-0 record have never lost a playoff series in the history of the NBA.
Brooklyn Eagle guest columnist Bobby Friedman summed up the spirit of the city in a reflection of his life as a Knicks fan: “For 25 years, Knicks fans prepared themselves for disappointment. Nobody prepared for success. That’s why this run feels bigger than basketball.”
Tonight’s game will be attended by a couple of political heavyweights. In addition to the usual celebrity’s row of Spike Lee, Ben Stiller, Timothee Chalomet, and other A-listers, President Donald Trump will be returning to his home state tonight for Game 3. Knicks officials are urging fans to prepare for airport-like security screenings and longer wait times to enter the arena. Mayor Mamdani will also be in the building tonight.
Due to the presidential treatment, watch parties outside the arena have once again been banned. But that won’t stop crowds of thousands from pouring into Bryant Park and Central Park and venues large and small across the five boroughs, ready to detonate if the Knicks take another one. Crowd safety experts offered Gothamist some tips on how to stay safe in the event of a celebration: watch for traffic and lightning, follow the law, and ideally, don’t get drunk.
Something tells me New York fans are going to ignore that last one.
A Brooklyn man hit the jackpot on a slot machine at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City.
Free art supply swap will take place at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Saturday, June 13.
Flag day celebration this Friday from City Hall to Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan will mark the 249th anniversary of the stars and stripes.
High schoolers aspiring to join Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso’s Borough Hall Youth Advisory Council can apply by EOD.
The Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn will be the setting on Saturday for the ordination of Transitional Deacon Paul Zwolak.
The City Council’s Committee on Small Business will convene a hearing Monday afternoon regarding City Councilmember Susan Zhuang’s Red Tape Relief Act.
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MANHATTAN — Hooray for Brooklynites! Bess Wohl poses in the press room with the award for best play for "Liberation" during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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If you believe the studies, AI is making you lonelier, dumber and easier to manipulate.
It flatters you instead of challenging you, then gaslights you when you’re vulnerable. It’s turning students into cheaters and developers into bottlenecks. One in seven people in a committed relationship is secretly dating one. And now, according to the latest research, it’s going rogue and hiding the evidence.
That loneliness study that drew headlines in April? Researchers at the University of British Columbia tracked 2,149 adults across four countries for a year and concluded that people who used AI more reported feeling lonelier. Inc. Magazine translated that into: “Lonely? Talking to an AI Chatbot Will Just Make You Lonelier.”
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On this day in 1890, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The new Madison Square Garden, New York, was thrown open to the inspection of the members of the press and invited guests last evening. The building covers the entire square bounded by Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets and Fourth and Madison avenues — 400 by 200 feet. The architects, McKim, Meade & White, and the builder, David King, Jr., have certainly put up a magnificent edifice.”
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