How to Watch the Women’s World Cup Parade

Local outlets including ABC 7, Fox 5 and NBC New York are expected to broadcast the parade on TV as well.

Where and when

Kicking off at 9:30 a.m. from the Battery, the team will begin its procession uptown along the Canyon of Heroes, a stretch of Broadway between Battery Park and City Hall, according to the mayor’s office.

After the parade, at 10:30 a.m., Mayor de Blasio will host a ceremony at City Hall.

There’s a whole slew of subway options for getting to the parade, but some exits and entrances at most stations nearby will be closed, including: Wall Street, Bowling Green, Fulton Street, Chambers Street, Park Place and the World Trade Center station.

Also, the R and W trains will skip City Hall in both directions beginning at 8:30 a.m.

If you’re thinking of driving, you may want to think again. The police will begin closing streets on Broadway and the surrounding area around 6 a.m. The Brooklyn Bridge’s Centre Street exit will be closed beginning at 6 a.m. as well.

Ticker-tape parades (named for the strips of paper that once ran through stock ticker machines) have been held in Manhattan for over 100 years in celebration of monumental events like the return of the Apollo 11 crew and Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight, the welcoming of foreign royals and dignitaries and American sporting champions.

But each parade is $$$.

Since office workers don’t throw ticker tape from their windows anymore, the city distributes bags and bags of ticker tape, confetti and other paper to dozens of buildings in the area for tossing down on the parade. Then someone has to pick it all up afterward.

The 2015 parade for the last Women’s World Cup win cost the city nearly $1.5 million. Private sponsors chipped in another $450,000.

Source: The New York Times

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