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Over a thousand pounds of confetti has been delivered to downtown buildings for tomorrow's ticker tape parade to celebrate the Yankees' 27th World Series win tomorrow. The shredded, recycled paper is being donated by Atlas Materials in Red Hook; Atlas' John Cioffi told NY1, "It will all be cleaned up by the sanitation department and recycled yet again. So this is going to be a green parade."
The parade begins at 11 a.m., starting at Broadway at Battery Place and then heading up north on Broadway—the Canyon of Heroes—to Chambers Street. There is additional transit services from various mass transit systems. Notably, NYC Transit—which recommends riders buy their Metrocards in advance— says:
Although the Lexington Avenue line serves the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, Fulton Street-Broadway/Nassau, Wall Street, and Bowling Green stations, Yankees' fans should be aware that the 4 5 6 lines are usually crowded during normal weekday rush hour along the corridor.Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road, NJ Transit, and PATH are offering more trains in the morning and afternoon for fans—WCBS 2 has a good breakdown of extra service.Instead, fans are encouraged to use the 1 line or the R or W lines to Rector Street, or the E to World Trade Center. Fans should also consider taking the 2 or 3 lines to Chambers Street or Wall Street, and the J to the Broad Street station.
Crowding conditions at the City Hall R and W station, Park Place 2 and 3 station and nearby 4 5 6 Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station may force trains to bypass those stations during the parade and ceremony at City Hall. All lines affected will be monitored by supervision to ensure smooth operation.
Suffice to say, lower Manhattan and the transit system will be flooded with Yankee fans. Above are some more photographs of the revelry outside the stadium (see the other photographs we ran this morning) after the win, and our own Peter Trinkle was at Game 6 and tells us:
"I would say the crowd was pretty nuts and really into it, I spent most of the game on my feet because everyone kept standing up and cheering (or booing when Pedro was involved).
I don't really know what they showed on TV, but Joba and Swisher led the team in a parade around the field waiving a championship flag which Joba (I think) also pretended to plant in home plate. The on field ceremony was ridiculous because they actually stopped it in the middle (I guess they went to commercial on TV) but all the fans were standing around. They kept flashing "This One's for you Boss" on the centerfield scoreboard. Joe Buck was booed every time they mentioned his name. I heard "New York New York" about 10 million times.Yanks for the memories!The scene outside the Stadium was nuts. We left around 12:45 and the streets were packed with people just celebrating. Lots of high-fives and hugs from strangers, nobody wanted to go home. "
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It's weird that the last time we had a yankees parade, the world trade center was still standing. I remember always going to borders in the arcade of the wtc after the parade from 98-00. Now that I think about it it's such a different world.
isn't it amazing when you think back... it sounds so far away, yet to all of us it was just... here, sorta
We just put our lives in storage, i made sure to put the paper in too, so i can reflect in a more joyous time... GOOOO YANKEES!!!!!!!!
Wow - BH you just blew my head.
The shredded, recycled paper is being donated by Atlas Materials in Red Hook; Atlas' John Cioffi told NY1, "It will all be cleaned up by the sanitation department and recycled yet again. So this is going to be a green parade."
Just because you're using recycled paper and then returning it to the recycling plant does not make this a "green" parade.
A real "green" parade would not use any confetti. Trucking the confetti and using the street sweepers to clean it up also negates any real "green" effort. Men with brooms and barrels cleaning up on foot is green. No confetti is green. No gas powered vehicles used in the parade is green.
Should only one small effort qualify an entire event "green"?
GO SOX!!!!
Your last 2 words explains the whole tirade.
You are just "green" with envy.
awesome. people don't really understand what green is.
but who cares, right? "As long as we get to blow off work and let our kids skip school for this..."
take it easy, people.
Yankees fans can suck my taint...nothing like a drunk stupid mook on the LIRR stumbling around with a Bud Light tall boy at 7:30 in the morning...all class.
How dare you!!!!! The Yankee organization and its fans are first class. Please try to not rain on their well deserved parade. With an economy careening out of control, rising homelessness, unemployment, and fear of impending doom on everyone's minds, people need to blow off a little steam. Let them live vicariously through athletes who make more in one day than they do in a year. If they need to wear Yankee underoos and drink themselves into a blackout by 7 o'clock in the morning-I say what the hell, let them! This championship will stimulate the economy and save the city from draconian cost cutting measures. Thank God almighty for the New York Yankees!
I humbly agree. What was I thinking? Go Yankees!
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and there's your summary ...
As of 9am there are easily 250,000 people in the area, if not more. It took me almost 30 minutes to get from the City Hall stop on the R train to Church Street.
ACE and 123 are the way to go if you're brave enough to travel to this area.
LETS GO YANKEES!
Now THAT was a parade. I saw the sad little excuse for a victory parade they held down in Philly last year. Frankly, the Phillies should be glad they didn't have to endure another one of those.