yankee parade route
With its lungs and its heart, New York City at its effulgent extreme saluted the triumphant Yankees yesterday in a rousing ticker tape parade up lower Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes. [1]
Like all great public events, the New York Yankees’ victory parade was not a single experience, but thousands of separate adventures. [2]
The New York Yankees celebrate after Game 6 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in New York. [3]
While official details have yet to be released, MyFoxNY.com is reporting that the 2009 Yankee Parade is expected to take place on Friday, Nov 6 at 11 am. [4]
New York City will celebrate the Yankees’ 27th World Series title with a parade Friday up Broadway. [5]
The Yankees Parade route is along the Canyon of Heroes in New York’s Financial District, up Broadway from Battery Park to City Hall. [4]
Yankees’ 27th World Series title with a parade Friday, following the traditional route up Broadway that long-time Yankees Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera know well. [...] A.J. Burnett #34 of the New York Yankees celebrates on the field after their 7-3 win against the Philadelphia Phillies in Game Six of the 2009 MLB World Series at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. [5]
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City will host a ticker-tape parade and ceremony in honor of the World Series champion New York Yankees. [3]
But the throng did seem much bigger than the very big crowd 10 years before, when the Mets won the Series and Darryl Strawberry rode down Broadway with his young family, serene and half-invisible in a low-slung convertible. [2]
Three days after one final foul fly ball plunked into the open glove of third baseman Charlie Hayes and the World Series finally belonged to the Yankees again, New Yorkers made it clear that they were not yet ready to let go of perhaps the most emotional October baseball the city has ever seen. [1]
The sidewalks lining the parade route along Broadway from the Battery to City Hall are open to all members of the public and the city will set up a large screen near City Hall Park for fans to watch the subsequent ceremony. [...] “Congratulations to the Yankees for bringing the world championship back home to New York City, where it belongs,” Bloomberg said in a statement. [5]
City estimaters counted 3.5 million people along the route, a figure that could have been accommodated only if quite a few fans were lying crushed underfoot. [2]
Yankees fans had waited nine years since the team’s previous World Series title, a Subway Series against their crosstown rivals, the Mets, in 2000. [3]
Sources:
[1] A Parade of Pride in Yankee Triumph - The New York Times
[2] Scenes From the Yankees‘ Parade - The New York Times
[3] NYC to host ticker-tape parade for Yankees - wtop.com
[4] Yankees Parade 2009 Set For Nov. 6 in Canyon of Heroes …
[5] Yankees World Series parade to be Friday