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The forecast calls for Big Blue skies — and a blizzard of confetti — when the world champion New York Giants stroll down Broadway today.
As the New York Giants ride up the “Canyon of Heroes,” waving to admiring fans, shredded paper, once ticker tape, now recycled unprinted newspaper, will rain down on the Super Bowl champs.
Between 500,000 and 1 million jubilant fans are expected to crowd the Canyon of Heroes and welcome home the Super Bowl champs with a full-blown ticker-tape victory parade.
Workers at Atlas Packaging in Red Hook, Brooklyn, were busy shredding the 35 to 50 tons of confetti yesterday that will be dropped from the skyscrapers today.
John Cioffi, the manager at Atlas Packaging, said his plant has supplied paper for Giants parades in the past, as well as Yankee parades and previous Veterans’ parades. He pushed the city into buying paper after he heard about enthusiastic fans tossing their paychecks and payroll sheets out windows during parades.
Sanitation crews will begin cleaning up immediately as The Sanitation Department has 336 workers already lined up to clean up the mess! The last time the Giants had a parade, in February 2008, about 36.5 tons of debris was swept up. In 2000, a parade for the Yankees dumped 46.7 tons.
“We’re stuck with about three weeks of paper still being blown off the ledges of the buildings. It just stays up there until we get some real windy days and then the paper comes down, sometimes you think it’s snowing outside, that’s how much paper is coming down,” said Joe Timpone, Senior Vice President for Downtown Alliance, who is overseeing distribution of shredded paper for confetti.
The Giants' parade will start at Battery Place and Washington Street and proceed up Broadway. No tickets are needed to stand along the parade route, though you may need a hall pass from your boss.
Following the parade in Manhattan is a 3 p.m. rally scheduled at the Giants home, Met Life stadium, in East Rutherford, N.J., where New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to attend.
Boro-Wide Recycling would like to congratulate the New York Giants again on their Super Bowl XLVI win!
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