Scrap City · for press & researchers
What were the vehicles destroyed in NYC's post-championship celebrations actually worth — as scrap? Every figure below carries its source; estimates are labeled. Copy any stat, embed any chart, or take the whole summary — no permission needed, attribution appreciated.
An ~80-word summary plus the load-bearing stats, ready to paste straight into a CMS.
Timeliness hook: this is a same-week reaction to the June 10–14, 2026 unrest — search interest in the Knicks celebration and in “scrap metal prices” spiked during the event (Google Trends — pull the live breakout figure at publish time)
After New York won its first NBA title since 1973, more than $1,000,000 in vehicles was destroyed across two nights — by NYPD counts, five school buses “lit on fire or destroyed” (they'd just shuttled fans to the World Cup at MetLife), nine NYPD vehicles smashed, and a yellow cab stomped in Midtown. Here's the part nobody added up: as scrap metal, that whole pile is worth only about $13,000 — roughly 1.3¢ on the dollar. A single burned school bus, ~$110,000 new, scraps for about $1,875. Scrap City is an independent analysis of what destroyed vehicles are really worth.
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