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Varsity Boys Basketball Team – PSAL Champs – up there with the Knicks !!
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The New York Knickerbockers were not the only titleholders at this week’s ticker-tape parade!
This article below appeared in the New York Daily News……
By Cayla Bamberger | cbamberger@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News
PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 5:03 PM EDT
On Thursday, the Seward Park Campus varsity boys basketball team, the 2025-26 Public Schools Athletic League champions, had the chance of a lifetime to take part in the parade on Lower Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes with the Knicks — less than a week after the pro team won its first NBA title in 53 years.
For the Seward Park Bears, the lessons learned from the Knicks’ historic playoff run — both on and off the court — will stick with them for the rest of their lives, players told the Daily News near the end of the parade route at the New York City Public Schools headquarters.
“One thing I do wish (to learn) from the Knicks is their humility as a team and their honesty,” said Brooklyn “BK” Hollins.
“They was up 2-0 on the road against this very great Spurs team, but they was able to stay consistent, 0-0,” Hollins added, borrowing a common refrain from the Knicks about taking the series one game at a time. “We don’t have the advantage. We have to play through everything. We have to stay hungry. And I would love to take that to college with me.”
Fans cheer during the New York Knicks championship ticker-tape parade and victory rally celebrating winning the 2026 NBA Finals on Thursday. (Caleb Bowlin/Getty Images)
The Lower East Side squad secured the PSAL Division 2A title in March, with a 60-49 victory over Townsend Harris High School in the city finals. Their championship run looked a lot like the Knicks’ dominant postseason, relying on small guards like Jalen Brunson and late-game tears. The Knicks pulled off the largest comeback in NBA Finals history in Game 4, closing a 29-point deficit to defeat the San Antonio Spurs.
“I think Seward plays like the Knicks,” said Lucas Bernstein, another Bears player, who compared his game and ability to “make the difference” to that of Josh Hart. “Knicks are a fourth-quarter team. They were down 70% of the whole Finals. And we tend to come back in the fourth, come alive in the fourth.”
The Seward seniors landed an eleventh-hour invite to the parade alongside seven other teams on Wednesday. Bernstein thought it was a prank, before it dawned on him that he was set to be part of New York City history. Hollins, scared of sleeping through his alarm, pulled an all-nighter.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, the players joined an estimated 2 million parade-goers who descended on Lower Manhattan, overflowing with pride in the Knicks and collective joy in New York. Fans were clad in blue and orange, while Seward wore their signature blue, gray and white.
Thousands of fans cheer during the New York Knicks championship ticker-tape parade and victory rally celebrating winning the 2026 NBA Finals on Thursday. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Along the parade route, the student athletes rode a double-decker bus, rejoiced with the revelers, signed jerseys and hats, and met a special guest: the legendary Hall of Famer, Knicks No. 33 Patrick Ewing. The team gifted a Seward Park T-shirt to Knicks owner James Dolan.
“Everybody doesn’t get this experience to be able to be in a parade with winners,” said Delano “Bam” McCollum, the team captain and a point guard known for his defense, who compared his game to Jose Alvarado’s. “You know, when you’re a winner, it feels great.”
Both McCollum and his teammate Roy Duran are off to play college ball in the State University of New York system next year — McCollum at Mohawk Valley Community College, and Duran at Plattsburgh State.
“I’m going there just to stay working hard,” Duran said, “make sure I keep working, be able to play at the next level, and keep moving up the steps.”
From Dora Sanchez, Class of 1986
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I do have great memories at SPHS! I wish I could remember all my friends, if someone remembers me email me at dshernandez7@yahoo.com
Interested in a 1974 Class Reunion?
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Please contact Sheila Kaminsky at Sheiladk4@yahoo.com
Deysi Cavanaugh (Polanco) – Class of 1974
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Does anyone remember Biology teacher Stanley Linker?
Kai Tham
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I believe I’m part of the class of ’78. I remembered Mr. Zalo the English teacher who always touches his key chain around his neck. I also remembered Mrs. Zelasny, The Spanish teacher. She had a streak of gray hair in the middle of the head. I’m not sure if there was a Mrs. Applegate, who was the biology teacher. I may be mixing up junior HS with Seward Park HS. Anyone knows if they are still around? Great to know if Robert Pecheco, Dolly Miranda, Amanda Santana, Jenny Ortez (Ortiz) are still in NYC. Great if we could convene some day.
ktham52@gmail.com
Mr. Steve Anderson – Teacher at Seward, a Founder of LoMA
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We are sorry to have learned of the recent passing of Steve Anderson, who taught at Seward Park High School from 1985 until the school’s closing in 2006. He then became one of the founders of LoMA on the Seward Park campus after Seward closed. Former LoMA principal John Wenk called Steve “one of the most beloved teachers” he has ever known, adding “he was a real teacher’s teacher.” Former colleague Maureen Lonergan contacted us to say that “he was a great teacher and a great friend. He had an amazing sense of humor!” Steve had been a music writer for the Village Voice when he decided to obtain his Master’s Degree and teach. In 2021 he authored As The Day May Determine, a book which drew on his background on the Lower East Side and East Village and received very favorable reviews. He was the type of teacher who really made Seward a special school. The mark he left on his students and co-workers will be long remembered.
Help Seward’s Cheer Team go to the National Competition!
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Seward’s Cheer Team will once again be competing in the National High School Cheerleading Championships next February 9-12, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. A Go Fund Me page has been set up to help the team get there. Your contribution, no matter how small, will help to make this happen. Thank you. Go Seward!
Click on the link below to be directed there:
Hello from Didar Alam (Dhidharul). Class of 2020
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Hello, many of my fondest memories are from Seward Park HS. I had many friends there but lost touch. Can’t believe it’s been 23 years already. Time flies. If you are a Seward Park alumni & may know me, please reach out to me @ dalamibo@yahoo.com. I would love to connect. All the best!
Giana Quinterno, Head Coach Cheer Team
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The Seward Park Campus Cheerleaders have earned a spot to compete in the National High School Cheer Competition for the second year in a row! It will take place in Orlando, Florida in February 2023. Click on the link below to see the interview on ABC7 news…. https://abc7ny.com/cheerleading-seward-park-cheer-team-nationals-manhattan/12720019/
The team has an online fundraising page to help get them to Orlando. Please support Seward’s very own cheerleading team via the link below.
Memories
Please submit your memories of Seward to sewardparkalumni@gmail.com
My name is Jerry Agrinzoni and I graduated from Seward in 1974. After completing my undergraduate degree at The City College and graduate degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work I worked at various jobs. From substance abuse counseling at the Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation's methadone maintenance program in Harlem (the Starting Point Clinic) to Services for the Underserved (community residential services for mentally ill chemical abusers) to my current employment with the New York City Housing Authority in the Social Services Department, I often look back on my years at Seward fondly. The environment there, the culture of the neighborhood and the students and teachers proved to be as guiding lights, urging me in the direction of wanting to help people. I received a lot of support and guidance from those individuals at Seward who were charged with bringing out each student's talents. So much were they invested in my future that the guidance counselor applied for me to go to The City College, at a time when I was unmotivated to go to any institution of higher learning. Thank goodness for that! And, thank you Seward Park! I'm sorry to see the old school go, and am heartened to see its incarnation ready to guide the youth of today and tomorrow into this new century. I pray that the same supportive environment I had still lives on! If anyone from the class of 1974, or any other year, would like to email me, please do at jagrinzoni@yahoo.com.
- Jerry Agrinzoni '74
My name is Jacquelyn Anderson and I attended and graduated from Seward Park in 1974. Since that time, I've entered the media. I was a radio newscaster at NJN (WNJT), and have been an on-air radio personality for several years now at stations in New Jersey and Alabama. I currently host "Midday Jazz With Jackie Anderson" at WJAB 90.9 FM, in Huntsville, Alabama. Also, I manage Hammond B3 jazz organist Vince Seneri, who is in the NY/NJ area. His latest CD is "Street Talk", with Grammy-winner Dave Valentin, Houston, Person, and David "Fathead" Newman. We are in the process of planning a world tour. I did get a chance to go to New York back in August, 2005 for my vacation, and had the privilege to drive by Seward Park High with my brother Kenny. I'll be back in New York soon. It brought back many wonderful memories for me! If anyone would like to contact me, my email address is:teekynyc@yahoo.com.
- Jacquelyn Anderson '74
I have very fond and vivid memories of my years at SPHS, not the least of which the year when I brought prestige to the school by having a short story I had written for the school's creative writing publication (called the Folio) won the district prize for Manhattan in a contest sponsored by NYU. At that time, all high schools in each of the boroughs were invited to submit student stories and I had to be persuaded to do so by my then honors English teacher, Miss Lyons. It was a first for the school and it made the faculty and all the students very proud.
- Mollie Abzug Pier '37