For the third time the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team has won the World Cup and on Friday, July 10 2015 at 11:00 am, they will be honored right here in New York City with a ticker-tape parade.
A tradition that started in New York City in 1886 with the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, there 
have been 205 parades up the “Canyon of Heroes” as the stretch of Broadway between The Battery and City Hall is called.
Long before the invention of computers and the NYCE’s electronic Big Board, stock price information was submitted by telegraph and was printed out by a ticker-tape machine on long paper strips called ticker-tape of course. Up until 1970 when the ticker-tape machine became obsolete, streams of ticker-tape were thrown from windows all along the Canyon of Heroes as the heroes or heroins being honored paraded by. Today, strips of colored paper are used instead.
The parade is free to anyone who wants to stand along the parade route. You have to get a ticket to attend the ceremony at City Hall that will take place at the end of the parade.
Street closings and parking restrictions will make driving in lower Manhattan much more of a nightmare than it typically is, so by all means take the subway! Take 1 to South Ferry, the 2 or the 3 to Wall Street, or the R to Rector Street.
For a list of all 205 Ticker-Tape Parades Down the Canyon of Heroes, go to the Alliance For Downtown New York’s website.
Enjoy the Parade!!!
