Kids get their own Knicks ticker-tape party on UWS ahead of official NYC parade

No child left behind.Hundreds of the Big Apple’s tiniest Knicks fans celebrated the hometown team’s historic NBA Championship win Wednesday on the Upper West Side.The Children’s Museum of Manhattan hosted the first-ever “kid-sized ticker tape celebration” that didn’t conflict with the school day, unlike the city’s official blockbuster parade set for Thursday morning.“Typically, these things in the city happen in the morning.This was again about creating a space that was the right size for children and understood the flow of their day,” Dava Schub, the CEO of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, told The Post.The pint-sized party was opened by Grand Marshals Jessica Seinfeld and Amy Schumer, both Upper West Side moms and dedicated Knicks fans, just after 4 p.m.

— a time specifically chosen to accommodate not only school hours, but dinner and bedtime for the city’s youngest.The kids screamed in joy as the pair sang “Go New York Go New York Go” before blasting orange and blue confetti into the crowd.The free event featured face painting, dancing and even life-sized cutouts of the Knicks stars for the children to take pictures with, since they won’t get to see them at the official parade.The event was announced just one day after Mayor Zohran Mamdani broke the news that Big Apple kids hoping to see their Knicks heroes parade down the Canyon of Heroes were out of luck.Thousands of middle and high schoolers will be stuck in class taking Regents exams during the celebration, which also takes place during the school day, kicking off at around 10 a.m.Despite pleading from teachers and students, the mayor refused to suspend classes.But the CMOM party was not a response to the heartbreaking news — Schub and her team were already planning their own tot-focused event before the timing for the city’s parade was announced.“The final time that the ball went through the hoop on Saturday night and the victory was declared — and my daughter and I...