Canyon of Heroes

Canyon of Heroes on lower Broadway in New York City, during a ticker-tape parade for the Apollo 11 astronauts on August 13, 1969.

"Canyon of Heroes" is a colloquialism referring to the section of New York City's lower Broadway and the Financial District that is the historic location of the city's ticker-tape parades.

The traditional route of the parade is northward from Bowling Green to City Hall Park. Most of the route is lined with tall office buildings along both sides, affording a view of the parade for thousands of office workers and the snowstorm-like jettison of shredded paper products onto the parade.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5,438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.^[1]

More than 200 black granite strips embedded in the sidewalks along the Canyon of Heroes list honorees of past ticker-tape parades.^[2]

The latest parade at the Canyon of Heroes was on February 5, 2008 for the New York Giants, in honor of their upset victory in Super Bowl XLII over the previously undefeated New England Patriots.

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• List of ticker-tape parades in New York City

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