Final Preparations Are Made For Yankees Parade In Lower Manhattan
NEW YORK - A festive air fills the Wall Street area as the Yankees' World Series celebration revs up with a ticker-tape parade.
Revelers arrived early Friday to get a good spot along the route. After the jubilant baseball players ride on parade floats to City Hall Plaza, the mayor will give them the keys to the city.
Bells will peal at historic Trinity Church.
Lower Broadway is known as the Canyon of Heroes. Some 200 ticker-tape parades have been held there, for heroes ranging from astronauts to sports champions to five-star generals.
Even Kennedy International Airport got into the act - lighting its control tower with the Yankees' signature blue.
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