Get out the shredders! New York City has announced it will hold a ticker tape parade in lower Manhattan to honor the U.S. women's national soccer team victory at the FIFA Women's World Cup.
Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered the news Tuesday evening, a day after the Manhattan borough president, Gale Brewer, issued a public call for a parade. In a letter to De Blasio, Brewer said that New York, despite its history of celebrating sports champions with ticker tape parades, had never held such an event for a women's team.