The New York Liberty won the WNBA championship on Sunday and as is fitting, they will be honored with a ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes on Thursday, Oct. 24, starting at 10a at Battery Place (in front of the Museum of Jewish Heritage) and ending at City Hall. This is the first parade for a New York team since 2012, when the Giants won the Superbowl. And this is the very first parade for a New York-based women’s sports team.

And of course the city last threw a parade for the US Women’s Soccer Team in 2019, after they won the World Cup.

Running from Battery Place to City Hall, the parade will be the first to honor a New York-based sports team since 2012 (when the Giants won the Superbowl) – and the novelty doesn’t stop there. The celebration will be In the words of the @nyliberty: “history made.”

This history from the Downtown Alliance, which embeds the markers in the sidewalk to note each occasion: Ticker tape itself was invented in 1867 – a one-inch-wide ribbon of paper on which the “ticker” machine recorded telegraphed stock quotes for brokerage firms. It was soon discovered that these delicate, light strips of paper produced a dramatic spiraling effect when thrown in the air. Contemporary accounts of the earliest ticker-tape parades describe the cascade of scrap paper as a spontaneous gesture on the part of spectators inspired by the festivities outside their windows.

The first officially organized ticker-tape parades welcomed home the victorious soldiers of World War I, and since then, the city has thrown dozens of celebrations for a wide range of people and occasions.

More history here.