Cup Routine Wins Miss New York the ‘Miss America’ Crown

Miss America 2015: Miss New York, Kira Kazantsev, wins title in 'threepeat' (New Jersey Star-Ledger)

There she is. But where she is — that's the real story.

For the third consecutive time, a Miss New York has won the Miss America pageant.

Kira Kazantsev, 22, a daughter of Russian immigrants whose ambition is to be a diplomat and whose pageant platform promotes domestic violence awareness, took the title tonight at Boardwalk Hall. Kazantsev said she plans to use her $50,000 in scholarship money from the win to help pay for law school — she deferred from the University of Notre Dame.