yankee parade route
Like all great public events, the New York Yankees’ victory parade was not a single experience, but thousands of separate adventures. [1]
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. [2]
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. [3]
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. [4]
New York City will celebrate the Yankees’ 27th World Series title with a parade Friday up Broadway. [...] 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. [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. [4]
The official 2009 Yankees Parade route has yet to be released. [3]
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. [2]
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. [...] Hideki Matsui drove in six runs in the clinching game and was named MVP. [5]
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. [1]
“Congratulations to the Yankees for bringing the world championship back home to New York City, where it belongs,” Bloomberg said in a statement. [5]
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. [4]
Instead she drew Duane Street, in the wake of the retreating hot-dog cart, watching 23 teen-agers leaping up and down on a trapped FedEx truck while the driver gunned his engine ominously. [1]
Sources:
[1] Scenes From the Yankees‘ Parade - The New York Times
[2] A Parade of Pride in Yankee Triumph - The New York Times
[3] Yankees Parade 2009 Set For Nov. 6 in Canyon of Heroes …
[4] NYC to host ticker-tape parade for Yankees - wtop.com
[5] Yankees World Series parade to be Friday