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Here’s what New York looked like in 1973, the last time the Knicks won a championship – in pictures

Shirley Chisholm was in Congress, Led Zep played Madison Square Garden and fans took seats out of Yankee Stadium

A woman inside a subway car in New York City in 1973. Photograph: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images
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People stand on a boardwalk in front of a restaurant with a model of a rocket ship on the rooftop.
Gregory & Paul’s Restaurant on the boardwalk at Coney Island’s Astroland Park in Brooklyn on 22 July 1973Photograph: Scott McPartland/Walter Leporati/Getty Images
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a band plays on stage
Led Zeppelin perform at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan on 29 July 1973Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns via Getty Images
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a man rides in a taxi
The Knicks’ Phil Jackson in a cab at LaGuardia airport, after the team’s return from Boston and a 94-78 win over the Celtics.Photograph: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images
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A woman speaks into a microphone as seated men listen.
The representative Shirley Chisholm speaks at a Borinquen Plaza public housing project dedication in Brooklyn on 4 September 1973. Listening (at right) is the then mayor, John LindsayPhotograph: NY Daily News/Getty Images
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People dance with a dragon costume on a street
Chinese dancers throw firecrackers into the path of the giant lion puppet as the year of the ox is ushered in on Mott Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown on 3 February 1973Photograph: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images
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People walk on a crowded city street
Orchard Street in downtown Manhattan on 4 April 1973Photograph: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images
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People watch televisions in a department store.
People watch a Senate committee hearing on the bugging of the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate office building at a New York department store’s TV section on 17 May 1973Photograph: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images
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A man hands a bag full of food to a man standing at a car
Abe Lebewohl’s Second Ave Deli at 10th Street in Manhattan on 23 January 1973Photograph: Jim Hughes/New York Daily News/Getty Images
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A girl plays in water spraying out of a fire hydrant
A little girl in Harlem skips away the hours in the refreshing spray of a fire hydrant on 13 August 1973Photograph: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images
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People hold anti-Vietnam war banners
People march in the Home With Honor parade in New York City on 31 March 1973Photograph: Stuart Lutz/Gado/Getty Images
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Two children stand next to an ice-cream truck
Two children buy treats from an ice-cream truck in Queens’ Rego Park neighborhood on 5 June 1973Photograph: Scott McPartland/Walter Leporati/Getty Images
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Cars wait in line at a gas station
Cars line up at a gas station in Manhattan on 31 December 1973Photograph: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images
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A man climbs up a ladder to people on the roof of a building
Police keep a ladder secure while leading hostages to safety during a standoff with robbers in Brooklyn on 21 January 1973Photograph: NY Daily News via Getty Images
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A child bounces on a pogo stick on a busy street
A child bounces along Fifth Avenue on a motorized pogo stick on 17 August 1973Photograph: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images
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People stand in a room full of television displays
The New York Stock Exchange in 1973Photograph: PL Gould/Images Press via Getty Images
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A child holds a shuffleboard stick
A young boy on a shuffleboard court in Harlem on 16 August 1973Photograph: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images
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People carry seats on a baseball field
Fans walk off with seats on the last day of play at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx on 1 October 1973Photograph: Paul DeMaria/NY Daily News/Getty Images
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