Adams dunks on Knicks legend John Starks with cell tower in front of his car dealership - New York Post

Knicks fable John Starks has gone from “posterizing” all-time NBA great Michael Jordan to being tower-ized by Mayor Eric Adams.

The Adams medication has OK’d the installation of a white, 32-foot, 5G compartment telephone operation successful beforehand of Starks’ Kia dealership successful Queens — a operation that dwarfs the tallest 7 footers the Knicks prima played with and competed against successful the 1990s — including Patrick Ewing and Hakeem Olajuwon.

The operation astatine the country of 87th Avenue and Queens Boulevard really blocks the presumption of Starks’ sanction connected the dealership from crossed the street.

Starks — whose legendary May 25, 1993 dunk implicit Jordan and the Chicago Bulls successful Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals sealed his stature arsenic a New York sports fable — was truthful infuriated by the “eyesore” that helium precocious called Queens Borough President Donovan Richards to registry a complaint.

Starks told Richards that helium wasn’t fixed announcement by the metropolis earlier they decided to erect the operation astir 10 feet from the beforehand of his dealership.

The metropolis Office of Technology & Innovation is overseeing the installation of 2,000 Link 5G thoroughfare towers crossed the metropolis to bolster work — including 18 that have caused an uproar successful Community Board 8 connected the Upper East Side.

A compartment telephone operation approved by the metropolis soars supra Knicks’ fable John Starks’s Kia car dealership successful Queens, adjacent blocking the missive portion of his sanction affixed to the building. Steve Vago

John Starks played the bulk of his NBA vocation successful New York. NBAE via Getty Images

Richards, a die-hard Knicks instrumentality who fondly remembers Starks’ dunk implicit Jordan, said helium supports the city’s wifi-expansion programme but added that officials erred successful their connection and siting of the Link 5G operation successful beforehand of Starks’ shop.

“Unless the metropolis plans to instal a hoop 10 feet up connected the operation and alert Michael Jordan to Sunnyside truthful John Starks tin dunk connected him again, moving this rod is simply a tiny but important triumph for transparency,” Richards told The Post.

“We admit the concern successful expanding high-speed net work crossed the borough, but conscionable arsenic Starks’ Knicks teams did from its beforehand office, Queens deserves wide connection from the metropolis up of immoderate specified installation erstwhile it comes to determination — particularly arsenic residents person to wage for the 5G work these towers offer.”  

Damien Corbett, the manager astatine the John Starks Kia dealership, confirmed that Starks is upset with the placement of the tower.

Mayor Eric Adams’ medication approved the installation of a 32-feet compartment telephone operation successful beforehand of Starks’ car dealership.Stephen Yang

“Basically 1 of the things is wherever it’s located close present is it’s successful beforehand of our dealership and blocks our sign, the signage of it. It’s not that we are not successful enactment of escaped WiFi, but wherever they person it located is simply a problem,” Corbett said.

“The determination close successful beforehand of our beforehand doorway is the hard portion of it…It doesn’t service anyone well. We weren’t made alert of it successful immoderate shape, signifier oregon manner until the time they came and said ‘we are putting up a WiFi operation here,’” added Corbett.

Starks was connected his honeymoon and unavailable for remark but Corbett said his brag considers the elephantine operation “definitely an eyesore.”

It’s imaginable the city could close its turnover. The operation successful beforehand of Starks’ dealership is not moving yet. A motion connected it reads, “LinkNYC Powering Up Soon.”

The mayor’s bureau and the Office of Technology and Innovation had nary contiguous comment.