Ticker-tape parade for New York Liberty: Here’s what to know

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 City Hall via the “Canyon of Heroes,” the team said in a press release.

The parade is open and free for fans to attend. A ceremony at City Hall will take place after the parade ends. 

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday said the city would give away 125 tickets to fans interested in attending the City Hall ceremony. All of those tickets have since been distributed, according to the team’s website.

A fan event will also be held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn at 7 p.m. Thursday, the team said. As of Wednesday afternoon, tickets for that event were sold out, according to Ticketmaster.

The Liberty clinched their first WNBA title Sunday night with a 67-62 overtime victory over the Minnesota Lynx in a winner-take-all Game 5 of the WNBA Finals.

The ticker-tape parade tradition began in the city back in October of 1886 to celebrate the dedication of the Statue of Liberty.  

The city has held more than 200 ticker-tape parades over the years honoring athletes, soldiers, astronauts and, most recently, health care workers after the pandemic.  

Confetti then was made from the paper output of ticker-tape machines, used on Wall Street to provide updated stock quotes.

These days, the Downtown Alliance is charged with the task of preparing the confetti.