In a nauseating hometown sight for New York Giants fans, the lights atop the Empire State Building turned green and white on Sunday night — and it was definitely not in honor of the New York Jets.
Instead, it was for the Giants’ hated rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the N.F.C. championship on Sunday and advanced to the Super Bowl, just a week after knocking New York out of the playoffs in a humiliating blowout.
The New York City Sanitation Department called it “treacherous, traitorous, and unforgivable.” Keith Powers, a City Council member who represents an area of Manhattan that includes the Empire State Building, deemed it “absolutely ridiculous.