The Yankees and the Mets are at the halfway point. The Rangers came up a bit short. Football is two months away. The Knicks are the Knicks.
But for the first time in more than three decades, New York City will hold a ticker-tape parade for a group of athletes who do not compete within the five boroughs (or even across the river): the United States women’s national soccer team.
On Tuesday, two days after the team’s World Cup triumph, the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio said the team would be honored along Lower Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes on Friday morning.