Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interesting facts you may not have known about ticker-tape parades. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France, and President ...

Ticker-tape parades have been a tradition in Manhattan for over 130 years, starting with the grand opening of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. Ticker tape was a one-inch ribbon of paper punched by a ...

Atlas Packing in Red Hook is busy shredding paper for Friday?s ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes. The company takes rejected paper that printing presses can't use and recycles it by ...

In Boston they drive their champions through the city's streets and down the Charles River on amphibious duck boats. The New Jersey Devils once celebrated a Stanley Cup win by riding around their own ...

A ticker-tape parade honoring war combat veterans who served in post-9/11 wars is coming to lower Manhattan next summer, according to the mayor’s office. Dubbed the “Homecoming of Heroes” and slated ...

He’s passed the torch. The New York Liberty’s ticker-tape parade on Thursday will be among the first without the longtime “Confetti King” shepherding the festivities along Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes ...

NEW YORK -- New York City showered the U.S. women's national soccer team with praise and paper confetti Wednesday at a ticker tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes and a ceremony at City Hall to honor ...

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 Yorker is invited ...

For over 100 years, ticker-tape parades in Manhattan have celebrated many events, including the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, the return of the Apollo 11 astronauts and numerous World Series ...

The city will honor the WNBA champion New York Liberty with a ticker-tape parade on Thursday. The parade will start in Battery Park in lower Manhattan at 10 a.m. before heading north on Broadway to ...