‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish’: who’s behind the Knicks chant uniting New York?

Ahnaf Hossain. Photograph: Kalshi

The New York Knicks are 3-1 up in the NBA finals, one game away from winning the championship for the first time since the 1970s. The mood in New York is electric, the city is strewn with blue and orange, crowds roar outside Madison Square Garden, and – at least last week – a viral chant has become a new unofficial New York City anthem:

My mayor Muslim

My bagel’s Jewish

My Christian Dior

Knicks in four