Interesting facts you may not have known about ticker-tape parades. Ticker-tape parades began on a whim. There was a parade taking place in New York City on October 28, 1886, to honor the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York City is set to honor the New York Liberty with a ticker tape parade on Thursday, celebrating the franchise's first-ever WNBA title. The city has held more than 200 ...

New York Liberty has become the latest sports team to be honored with a ticker-tape after winning the WNBA championship for the first time in league history. The last group of athletes that ...

Get ready to paint the town seafoam green. The New York Liberty’s highly-anticipated ticker-tape parade will march Thursday morning up Manhattan’s “Canyon of Heroes” – and every New ...

Confetti filled the streets of lower Manhattan on Wednesday as New Yorkers gathered for a ticker tape parade honoring the heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Called the Hometown Heroes Parade ...

The New York Liberty are WNBA champions at long last, and New York City is set to celebrate the victory with a ticker-tape parade. The Liberty emerged triumphant after an incredible five-game ...

Ticker-tape parades are an honor that we bestow as a people, and to edit the record of them is to blot out our mistakes and failings. It would mean embracing a false history, and pretending that ...

He wants Olympian Katie Ledecky celebrated with a ticker-tape parade. “I am serious,” Engel said, “I have pushed this at every level I can.” The long time C-SPAN producer said a ticker ...

Into the 1960s, ticker-tape parades began to be viewed as disruptive and routine, so after Mayor John Lindsay took office in 1966, they were only reserved for special occasions.

Because of how ticker-tape parades came to be, that area of the Financial District naturally evolved into the location where over 200 ticker-tape parades are held. The parade route is marked with ...