He's the mayor regardless of your feelings on the matter, and the Nicks are the sportsball team for the city he's mayor of. This isn't partisan thing just because he exists and is doing what mayors do. If he tried to gatekeep something for only his party, or ideology then it'd be partisan. But he didn't because it's a NY thing, not a partisan thing. See the difference?
> He's the mayor regardless of your feelings on the matter
...which didn't come into my comment in the slightest? It's stupid no matter who the mayor is.
Your response is indicative of exactly the problem [1]: you're leaping to a partisan conclusion, because I dared to criticize something related to politics. I remember when New Yorkers made fun of crap like this.
[1] to be specific: the reflexive political toxicity that is melting everything into a morass of partisan goo.