Knicks parade set for same day as NYS Regents exams in major bummer for young fans

They’re testing Knicks fans’ patience.Thousands of Big Apple teens will miss out on the Knicks historic ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes — because they’ll be stuck in class taking Regents exams.The scheduling snafu means students in the New York metro area will be stretching their brains while the rest of the city is losing their minds at the citywide victory celebration for the NBA champs on Thursday.

“Honestly, it sucks,” said Jael Rosado, a freshman at LaGuardia High School in Manhattan.“I would’ve loved to go.

If there were a way to take it either later or earlier, possibly, I would have loved it.”Classmate Savannah Feurvil was also ticked about the scheduling snafu.“It is kind of sucky that it had to be on a day when students are going to be still in school, working their asses off to try to get by and stuff,” she said.

“It’s definitely a bummer that that those two things coincidentally had to happen on the same day.”Long before the Knicks brought home the first NBA title in 53 years, state education officials scheduled Regents science exams for Thursday, when the rest of the New York metro area will be celebrating the hometown heroes in what could prove to be the biggest parade ever held in the city.Mayor Zohran Mamdani said there’s not much he can do about it.“I know that many New Yorkers have built their entire lives around this team, not just for the course of these last few weeks and months and years, but frankly for decades, and for our students,” Mamdani said Monday.“I will still encourage them to be studying hard for their Regents exam.“There will always be a number of people who will not be able to make it, no matter what day that we choose,” he said.

“However, this date is chosen in accordance both with the Knicks as an organization, as well as with the NYPD and other city agencies and departments.”Mamdani said the planned parade “may well be the largest parade in New York City history.”...