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The New York Tuck Tapers were a basketball team who competed in the National Industrial Basketball League during the 1959/60 and 1960/61 seasons.

In their inaugural season, the team split their home games between the upstate city of Rochester and the Hudson Valley city of White Plains. In Rochester, the team played in the Rochester Community War Memorial, filling the void created by the departure of the NBA's Rochester Royals for Cincinnati in 1957. In White Plains, they played in the Westchester Civic Center, current home of the NBA D-League's Westchester Knicks.

Despite starting the season with three wins in their first six games, the Tuck Tapers struggled through the remainder of their season and finished the campaign with a 7-25 record.

The team relocated to New Rochelle, New York for the 1960/61 season. They finished with a 15-19 record.

Following the collapse of the NIBL following the 1960/61 season, Tapers owner Paul Cohen was awarded a charter franchise in Abe Saperstein's new American Basketball League, and the Tuck Tapers were relocated to Washington DC and dubbed the Washington Tapers.