NEW YORK – Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani today awarded Keys to the City of New York to the New York Knicks and honored them at both a ticker-tape parade along the “Canyon of Heroes” and a City Hall ceremony. The parade, which started near Battery Park and traveled to City Hall, marked the first ticker-tape.
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