#Here’s what it costs fans to score Knicks playoff tickets

New York City is nuts over the Knicks.

Fanatical followers of the orange and blue are forking over buckets of Benjamins to score the hottest — and only — ticket on Broadway.

TicketIQ found the average secondary-market price for seats to the Knicks’ first-round home games vs. the Atlanta Hawks at Madison Square Garden — $1,453 — is not only the most expensive opening-round NBA playoff price it’s ever tracked, but more expensive than any prior hoops series, excluding the NBA Finals.

A savvy Gotham fan could save a cool grand by simply flying to Atlanta ($256 round-trip) and buying $129 ducats there to Game 3 Friday.

“The combination of an eight-year playoff drought at MSG and lots of saved-up live event dollars is driving demand to historic levels,” TicketIQ’s Jesse Lawrence told The Post on Friday.

The Knicks announced they will allow 15,000 fans into the World’s Most Famous Arena for the first round of the playoffs — the highest in the NBA. The Garden’s normal seating capacity for Knicks games is 19,763. MSG noted that 90 percent of their fans will be vaccinated for the team’s first playoff game since 2013.

It will be among the largest indoor crowds for a sporting event in North America since the pandemic. Games 1 and 2 against the Atlanta Hawks are slated for Sunday and Wednesday, and they quickly sold out when they went on sale Wednesday.

By contrast, the Atlanta Hawks will allow just 7,600 for Games 3 and 4.

As of Friday afternoon, the “best” seats for Sunday in the MSG nosebleeds — section 226, row 24 — were being hawked on Stubhub.com for just short of $200. For those with champagne tastes, a “Club Platinum” ducat in section 106, row 8 will set you back $8,550, the secondary ticket site says.

The surprising Knicks — who finished the pandemic shortened regular season at 41-31 — have made the playoffs just six times since 2000. Oddsmakers had the perennial sad-sacks winning no more than 22 of their 72 games this year.