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Fans celebrate during the New York Knicks\u2019 NBA championship parade Thursday, June 18, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Ryan Murphy)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 It is a city bathed in the orange-and-blue afterglow of a Knicks championship<\/a> , gushing with the joy of World Cup fans jamming its bars and its streets<\/a> , enjoying a singular confetti-raining, fireworks-bursting, parade-rolling, smile-inducing moment that seems to make this place feel even more like the center of the universe it has always claimed to be.<\/p>

Read more U.S. beats Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 to advance to round of 16 and keep its World Cup dreams alive<\/a><\/p>\n

So if a certain pop idol were to choose this island<\/a> , at this moment, for her vows, could anywhere be more fitting?<\/p>\n

\u201cThis city has always known how to celebrate big moments. But this summer, so many of them have collided at once,\u201d says Rabbi Yael Buechler, 40, of the Riverside section of the Bronx, who is preparing a \u201cSwiftie Shabbat\u201d this weekend with friendship bracelet cookies and a bedazzled challah bread she says is inspired by her \u201cChuppah Era.\u201d \u201cWhen I look back on the summer of 2026, I won\u2019t remember just one event. I\u2019ll remember a season when New York felt united in celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York is always a city whose seduction battles its struggles, where the thrill of finding a subway car with an open seat meets the realization that it\u2019s empty because its lone passenger is hurling trash across it. The schlepping, the waiting on line, the $9 boxes of cereal and $32 burgers and microscopic apartments with titanic rents, the sidewalk mounds of trash, the gutted rat you nearly step onto in the street. All of it can congeal into too much, separating New Yorkers for a season from New Yorkers for life.<\/p>\n

But then there are those days when the streets are a storybook, with all the eclectic, utopian splendor Richard Scarry could muster, where you step out of an impossibly tiny, immeasurably cute cheese shop to find an impromptu classical concert on a front stoop. Neighbors exchange knowing looks at whatever absurdity unfolds before them, parks unfurl like paintings, a kaleidoscope of humanity seems in sync, lights twinkle, dumplings are cheap, pizza is perfect, bagels are fresh from the oven, dreams are all fulfilled.<\/p>\n

In the battle between the slog of metropolitan life and its many daily gifts, some felt the recent arrival of a thumb on the scale.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s trademark cynicism faded a bit. And in a place where celebrity passersby and visiting monarchs typically get the same collective shrug, a certain exuberance appeared. The beaming young mayor, fresh off an announcement that a swath of New York\u2019s tenants would see no rent hike, was even found jumping into a city pool in a suit and tie.<\/p>\n

This town has known seasons of many stripes, from that autumn of grief after 9\/11 to that spring of solitude and trepidation as COVID-19 first emerged. They always pass. The city moves forward. But however long this Summer of New York stretches and the city pulsates with positivity, locals are relishing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy to feel alone in the big city, but we all feel a bit closer right now,\u201d says Dallas Short, a 38-year-old publicist who lives in the Two Bridges neighborhood of Manhattan. \u201cAnything seems possible and attainable right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than anything, the Knicks\u2019 fantastic run fueled today\u2019s New York temperament, with its underdogs-coming-out-swinging, constantly-rallying-from-behind, Jalen Brunson methodically delivering<\/a> , OG Anunoby tipping in an impossible shot<\/a> , and millions of onlookers unsure of what they just witnessed as they slid into a warm bath of delight.<\/p>

Read more Lamine Yamal is healthy enough to play full matches for Spain in knockout rounds, De La Fuente says<\/a><\/p>\n

Spike Lee, a sideline fixture for decades and quintessential New Yorker, captured the city\u2019s darker side with his film \u201cSummer of Sam,\u201d set in the city\u2019s long-remembered summer of 1977. This year, he oozed joy even before victory was sealed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is truly Fun City,\u201d he proclaimed in The New York Times, \u201cborn again!\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the thrill of that even wore away, the world\u2019s soccer fans descended, turning Times Square into a Viking longship<\/a> and points across the city into flag-waving, drum-beating celebrations<\/a> . In a city whose most iconic statue is a testament to its openness to newcomers, teams from Cape Verde to Paraguay to Congo found local fans and international visitors found compatriots.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is electricity in the air,\u201d says Steven Gottlieb, a real estate agent and born-and-bred New Yorker who lives in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan. \u201cMany of us have a love-hate relationship with New York City, but there\u2019s a lot to love right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which brings us to none other than Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n

After moving here over a decade ago, she penned \u201cWelcome to New York,\u201d which called the city a \u201ctrue love\u201d and portrayed it as an \u201cever-changing,\u201d \u201cdrives you crazy,\u201d \u201ckeeps you guessing\u201d paramour.<\/p>\n

Asked about her new home at the time, she told Rolling Stone, \u201cIn terms of being happy, I\u2019ve never been closer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift was spotted courtside<\/a> at Madison Square Garden in Game Four of the Knicks\u2019 run. And if rumors prove to be true, she\u2019ll return to the arena this week to celebrate a marriage to football player Travis Kelce. Should it come to pass, it would arrive on a week capped by all the revelry the city can serve up for the 250th anniversary of the country\u2019s independence, in a fireworks-blasting, tall ships-sailing spectacle.<\/p>\n

In this city scarred by terror, darkened by blackout and flooded by storm, no New Yorker would be so na\u00efve as to think it all will last. The rents will rise. The kvetching will return. The smells and the crowds will again grow too much.<\/p>\n

Let it be remembered, though: For a blissful moment in the summer of 2026, joy reigned here.<\/p>

Read more Another blockbuster: Jaylen Brown getting traded by Celtics to 76ers for Paul George, draft picks<\/a><\/p>\n

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Matt Sedensky can be reached at msedensky@ap.org and https:\/\/x.com\/sedensky<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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