The perfect Knicks orange? It’s actually carrot

Pantone was a bust, so two MTA employees found a perfect color match in the most New York way possible: at a 24-hour hardware store.

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When the MTA painted the subway station entrance at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue just outside Madison Square Garden in team colors to commemorate the New York Knicks’ first appearance in the NBA Finals since 1999, the blue looked perfect, but MTA’s creative........

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