February 4, 2008
Super Giants Celebrations Get Crazy, Plus Details on Tomorrow's Ticker Tape Parade
Photograph of a Giants fan in Times Square by Johnia! on Flickr
After the stunning Giants' Super Bowl win, people cheered like they hadn't seen a Super Bowl victory in 17 years! Throughout the city, folks were stumbling onto streets, chanting the names of players and even getting arrested.
A thousand people flooded Times Square, reportedly jumping on cars and sitting on top of phone kiosks, but the Post says no one was arrested. On the Upper East Side, 86th Street was closed by the police and in Brooklyn, fire trucks "roared down the boulevards with their lights on and horns blaring." Heck, people were even moved to dance naked on cars!
Photograph of a Union Square arrest by daniel.gene on Flickr
In Union Square, there were arrests. The Washington Square News reported that two NYU students were nabbed when a female freshman banged on the window of one of those undercover police cars that look like cabs.
Two officers jumped out of the car, threw the girl onto the vehicle's hood, arrested and handcuffed her and put her in the car's backseat.As for the ticker tape parade, here are the details:As the car continued to drive through the mass of people, a male sophomore approached the vehicle in what onlookers said was an attempt to check on the girl. He was arrested as well.
"That's my boy," one onlooker said of the sophomore. "He didn't do anything, and they cuffed him."
- The parade will now start at 11AM at Broadway at Battery Place. The parade continues north on Broadway (the Canyon of Heroes) to Chambers Street and ends at City Hall, where a ceremony will be held
- Mass transit is the best way to get to the parade route, so expect some crowded subways and trains. The MTA is adding additional service to the subways, buses, LIRR, and Metro-North. Also: "Crowds near the City Hall R/W, the Park Place 2/3 station and the Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall 4/5/6 station may force trains to bypass these stations during the parade and ceremony at City Hall."
- NJ Transit is also adding extra service.
- The confetti used in the ticker tape parade is coming from Red Hook. According to the Observer, "The confetti is recycled packaging paper cut into approximately 10-inch strips and is being provided by the Atlas Material Company in Red Hook. Downtown Alliance personnel spent today at the company's plant, breaking down the 60-pound bales of packaging paper into 25-pound bags. "
WCBS880 has good info, plus a map. And expect lots of drunk, stumbling people in the middle of the day. Try to be patient.
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Is that a squad car made to look like a cab? stealthy!
Thanks for using my picture!
See others here: Giants Fans Take on Time Square
It's too late now, but on ABC News, they were reporting that city hall is giving away 4000 tickets for the seating areas by the stage by calling 311 and leaving your name and phone number before 7PM tonight.
You know, I think if I had a female friend grabbed off the street late at night, cuffed, and thrown into the back seat of a taxi--not a police car--I would want to inquire as to where she was going as well. Otherwise, aren't you just letting your friend be abducted, no questions asked? That's not very chivalrous.
An easy way to spot a NYPD taxi is that the license plate doesn't match the medallion number.
Toby's right -- real cabs have a license plate number the same as the four character code on the roof. Cop-cabs have weird plates that don't match up.
HOW BOUT DEM PATRIOTS!!!!!!!!
The cop cabs also always have at least 2 cops inside, with the second guy usually in the passenger seat. It's usually pretty obvious since there's no one in the back, and they don't look like taxi drivers, but more like the usual "I'm undercover, but dress like every other undercover cop, including the baseball cap". As noted before, the license plates don't match the cab number on the roof too. The cab graphics are now exactly as those on regular cabs though. They also tend to do stupid shit, like drive the wrong way down a one way street without sirens (usually only the hidden strobes) for emergency East Village Dunkin Donut runs.
The cop cabs also always have at least 2 cops inside, with the second guy usually in the passenger seat. It's usually pretty obvious since there's no one in the back, and they don't look like taxi drivers, but more like the usual "I'm undercover, but dress like every other undercover cop, including the baseball cap". As noted before, the license plates don't match the cab number on the roof too. The cab graphics are now exactly as those on regular cabs though. They also tend to do stupid shit, like drive the wrong way down a one way street without sirens (usually only the hidden strobes) for emergency East Village Dunkin Donut runs.
'try to be patient"?
why the fuck should i? because some sports team won a football game and MAYBE 5% of the city's population gives a rat's ass?
i don't think patience is in order.
I think the cops might have over reacted as the
celebrating jerks or drunks were damaging Taxi-
cabs on second avenue and 82nd street jumping
on the roof tops .the cabs ain't made for 250lb
guys to jump on.
Anyway it looked like Chapel Hill NC after the
tar heels won the ACC.
Most of those assholes jumping on cars probably are probably transplanted bandwagon dickwads who one month ago couldn't have given two shits about the Giants. And now they're jumping on cars, like this is Detroit after a Pistons championship? Screw them. Let them spend the weekend in The Tombs.
undercover cops cabs usually have two cops sitting in the front seats. and, wearing the same undercover white cop clothes, faded jeans, white sneakers and a sports jersey. unless they got minority cops doing that job now, then you're screwed because you'll be surprised who's a cop. that's why they get shot for doing their job.
funny thing, 20 yrs or so ago, I had a cop who was moonlighting driving a cab.
He got nailed for an illegal turn and flashed his badge to get out of a ticket from the traffic cop, not nypd but think brownie.
navinjohnson, have you considered taking a deep breath or another means of dialing back the aggro? Maybe you should spend tomorrow at the Met or visiting an anger management therapist.
man, You know in boston they usually have riots whenever someone wins a superbowl or world series where there is tons of violence and someone dies. In NY you get people jumping on cabs. Lame.
Babyhitler actually makes a good point. This kind of crap is mild compared to other cities. Didn't Chicago pracitcally burn itself down one year in the 90's when the Bulls won their fifth, or however many it was?
i bet on over 40 arrests!