These days, the Reverend John Merz is feeling relieved of a curse.
Merz has been a Knicks fan since around 1973, and his team’s big win freed him from a sense of injustice that a city known as the mecca of basketball had gone half a century without winning an NBA championship.Â
As leader of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension (127 Kent St.), he likes to compare the sense of people coming together in…
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