Yankees Ticker Tape Underway, Canyon Of Heroes Beyond Crowded

Photograph of the crowd at 9:30 a.m. by Jamie Paakkonen

The Yankees are on their floats up the Canyon of Heroes for the ticker tape parade. Not only are there members of the Yankees organization—MVP Hideki Matsui is modestly waving to the crowd—but former mayor Rudy Giuliani, Michael Kay and super fan Freddy Sez are in various cars! Oh, and Mayor Bloomberg and manager Joe Girardi are on the first float, with the trophy—and Jay-Z is on the street, waiting to get on his float.

You can see streaming coverage of the parade at MyFoxNY, WABC 7, WNBC 4, WCBS 2, and NY1.

Good luck trying to take a subway downtown—NYC Transit said earlier, "Due to crowd conditions, some downtown R & W trains bypassing City Hall; some 4 & 5 bypassing Wall St." We're also hearing that there are tons of fans all over the place, like climbing onto sanitation trucks and that people are getting crushed against street barriers—and the police can really remove them because it's so crowded! And if you didn't realize that there are tons of street closings downtown, here's the NYPD's list of closures.

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Update: More reports of "unruly crowds" along the parade route, even one about revelers on some scaffolding.

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By Jen Chung in News on November 6, 2009 11:09 AM

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carbomb

get a life you morons.

maevemealone

I was almost dangerously squashed in the crowd near Fulton. There was one girl fight and the one girl was totally asking for it, she was drunk and belligerent in a very tight space. After trying to shove me around, she shoved someone less tolerant...and lost. One case of vomiting, a few instances of shoving and yelling but mostly, everyone tried really hard to keep it under control. There was no getting out of where I was, it took twenty minutes to move 15 feet and a great deal of cooperation with those around me. It was fun, but I'm taking a break from human beings for a while!

Steven

I saw two guys go at it near Fulton. Some security guards from one of the buildings at the break up the fight.

TK

People were lining up at 6 o'clock this morning. They must be the same people that wait in line 3 hours on Ben and Jerry's customer appreciation day.

JenChungsBaby

On Halloween she went as an ambulance.

JenChungsBaby

Whoops -- that was in response to #9.

polit_burro

Clearly, we would not have would it all without Mike Bloomberg's clutch middle inning relief.

grandzu

sucks if you work on broadway. buildings have told people not to go out for lunch.

marblehill

I saw a lady on the subway heading down to the parade this morning with the Yankees "NY" logo painted on her face. Clearly, though, she must have done it while looking in the mirror, as the "N" was backwards. Brilliance.

Mordicai

God the trains & streets are full of the WORST people. Don't people move to "the Big City" to get away from these morons?

Boogie Down

I am making an assumption here, but I would bet you $5 that these morons to whom you are referring are born and bred New Yorkers who have never left the tri-state area. Urban hicks. This city is full of them.

Mordicai

You're wrong in this particular assumption (they were Jersey boys) but I take your meaning. Which doesn't make it any better!

zpk

I'm glad to see New Yorkers are out en force to cheer the Roman army's return from Damascus.

WesleySnipesAlot

Although they forgot to put someone behind A-Rod to whisper in his ear, "Memento Mori!" (Remember thou art mortal!)

virgilstarkwell

two questions:

who pays for all the cops, the overtime, the sanitation, the extra staff on metro north trains, etc?

do the people that are attending have jobs? if so, do they really think that taking a day off to go to a parade is a wise career move during a recession? if i was laying people off, those that showed such little care for their jobs would be the first to go.

jaycjay

The Daily News said yesterday that the Giants' Super Bowl parade cost $330,000 and that of that the city spent $20,000 with the rest coming from private donations. We'll probably have to wait a day or two to find out what the costs are for this one and where the money came from.

whitecastlerock

Given the current economic conditions, I wonder how many donors are able to fork over cash for these festivities?

Spirit of 76

The city pays for it. But City Hall claims that having a local team as world series champs brings in far more money than is spent on the parade. So they say.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. That guys like these are proclaimed "heroes" cheapens the word immeasurably.