It’s the high cost of Linning.
The resurgent Knicks will sock fans with another ticket-price boost next season, making the cheap seats not so cheap by this fall, team officials announced yesterday.
Knicks fans will pay an average of 4.9 percent more for their 2012-13 season tickets.
And fans of their Madison Square Garden mates, the white-hot Rangers, will have to pony up about 9.5 percent more when the puck drops on a new season in October.
Madison Square Garden didn’t release any 2012-13 seating charts, so it was unknown how much more any individual seat would cost. But MSG said, “Price increases are primarily focused on the upper bowl seats.’’
JEREMY LIN Leads team’s resurgence.
Nosebleed 400-level seats now go for between $10 and $45 per game for Knicks subscribers. If the top cheap seat goes up by the average hike, it would cost more than $47.
Upper-deck tickets go for $39 a game across the board for Rangers season-ticket holders.
Yesterday’s news comes on top of massive ticket-price increases before the current seasons. Knicks and Rangers fans are paying 49 percent and 23 percent more, respectively, compared with 2010-11.
“I don’t like it,” Port Washington, LI, resident and Knicks fan Andrew Wu, 41, said outside MSG. “It hurts me.”
Garden officials justified the cheap-seat hikes by saying they’ll help defray costs of the overhaul the arena is undergoing in three phases.
The first phase, finished last fall, did not reach the upper deck. The second phase is scheduled to take place after the current Knicks and Rangers seasons are over and will include an upstairs renovation.
“The upper bowl will offer larger, more comfortable seating and significantly improved sight lines,” according to a Garden statement.
It’s been a remarkable winter for Gotham sports fans, with the Knicks rising up from cellar-dwellers to contenders, thanks to dynamic point guard Jeremy Lin.
The Rangers have, almost quietly, skated to a commanding lead in the Eastern Conference with high-scoring winger Marian Gaborik and stingy goaltender Henrik Lundqvist leading the charge.
Despite the massive price hikes before this season, fans are still shelling out.
On the secondary market, Rangers home tickets are going for $187 a game, up from a $129 average last season, according to Chris Matcovich, director of data and communications for TiqIQ.com
An average secondary ticket for the Knicks is now an NBA-high $332 per game, up from $226 last year.
david.li@nypost.com
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