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New York City Parade to Celebrate NY Giants' Super Bowl Win Feb. 5

The "Canyon of Heroes," New York City's traditional route for ticker-tape parades celebrating heroic accomplishments - from military leaders to Apollo astronauts to World Series champions - will host yet another on February 5 as the city toasts the New York Giants, winners of the National Football League's Super Bowl XLII. The Giants, underdogs entering the Feb. 3 game in Glendale, Arizona, defeated the then-undefeated New England Patriots by a 17-14 score.

The parade, scheduled to start at 11am, will progress up lower Broadway from Battery Place to City Hall Park along a route lined with tall office buildings, from which thousands of office workers will throw confetti. The parade culminates with a  ceremony at City Hall Plaza. Tens of thousands of fans will line the parade route.

The sidewalks along the Canyon of Heroes have black granite strips embedded within them listing honorees of past ticker-tape parades. Honorees include Admiral George Dewey; Theodore Roosevelt; General John Pershing; golfers Bobby Jones (2 times) and Ben Hogan; aviators including Amelia Earhart (2 times) and Charles Lindbergh; explorer Rear Admiral Richard Byrd (3 times); Olympic athletes including Jesse Owens; World War II leaders Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Gen. Charles de Gaulle (2 times), Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, Pres. Harry S. Truman, Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, and Winston Churchill; Howard Hughes; astronauts including John Glenn (2 times), Neil Armstrong, and Virgil Grissom; Pope John Paul II; the New York Yankees, Mets, Rangers, and baseball Giants; and presidents, prime ministers, and royalty from nations around the globe.

Continue your personal celebration at one of New York City's many restaurants and bars, or find commemorative apparel and memorabilia at one of the City's sporting goods stores.

City Guide congratulates the Giants on a phenomenal season and a remarkable victory.

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