NYC expects 1 million Giants fans at parade

If you have a problem with large, high-decibel crowds, stay away from lower Manhattan Tuesday.

Everybody else can join the expected 1 million Giants fans who will pack Broadway for a delirious ticker-tape salute to the team that battled its way to its second Super Bowl championship in five seasons.

Kicking off at 11 a.m. at Battery Place and Washington Street, the parade will motor its way north just short of a mile up the Canyon of Heroes through a blizzard of "ticker tape" -- actually confetti, shredded waste paper, fresh toilet rolls and anything else that floats through the air -- for a 1 p.m. ceremony at City Hall Plaza.

"Heartwarming doesn't quite cover this, what you go through and what your feelings are," said Giants coach Tom Coughlin, who was in the 2008 parade. "When you are looking down the side streets, and there's people forever down those side streets, and they're all there because they are taking ownership of their team."

Later, the Giants will travel to New Jersey, where Gov. Chris Christie will hold a rally for fans.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg will present the Giants keys to the city -- as he did with the Yankees in 2009 when they won the World Series. Bloomberg, who traveled to Indianapolis for the game, already is counting the dollar signs for the city's economy.

"The Giants' Super Bowl victory was an incredible win for our city," Bloomberg said Monday, projecting that the parade will boost the city's economy by $19 million to $38 million, depending on how many fans show up. Costs of the parade will be offset by official sponsors such as Duane Reade, Hackensack University Medical Center and Toyota, the mayor said.

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Crowd estimates for ticker-tape parades are always inexact and the police don't release figures. But city officials expect that between 500,000 and 1 million people will come into town for the Giants event. By Monday morning, 49,483 people had entered a sweepstakes for 500 tickets to attend the City Hall event.

Usual security measures typical of large events such as the New Year's Eve celebration at Times Square will be in place, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. While there is no specific terrorism threat against the city, he said police will have a counterterrorism presence on the streets and expect to use special two-story movable Skywatch towers to view the crowd.

The Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North will provide extra service, as will the Port Authority with PATH trains. Broadway and many surrounding streets will be closed to vehicles, and subway stations at Fulton Street, Wall Street and City Hall also might be shut at times.

Traffic through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel will be impacted, with the exit at Trinity Place shut from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday.

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Sanitation crews will begin cleaning up immediately. 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.

GUIDE TO THE GIANTS SUPER BOWL VICTORY PARADE

Parade route

New York Giants Super Bowl victory parade begins at 11 a.m. at Battery Place and Washington Street in lower Manhattan and continues northbound on Broadway. Ceremony at City Hall Plaza begins at 1 p.m.

Best subway stops

1 to South Ferry

2 or 3 to Wall Street or Fulton Street

4, 5 or 6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall

J to Chambers Street

R to Rector Street

Stops to avoid

Beginning at 10 a.m. trains will not stop at the following stations:

4 and 5 at Wall Street

R at City Hall

A or C at Chambers Street

E at the World Trade Center

4, 5, A or C at Fulton Street

Extra rides

Long Island Rail Road, PATH and Metro-North Railroad are all adding extra trains to carry fans to the parade. Contact the agency for more information on times.

Gridlock

City officials recommend not driving to lower Manhattan for the festivities.

The following streets will be closed to vehicular traffic:

All streets between Broadway and Church Streets from Canal to Pearl Street

Lafayette and Centre Street from Canal to Chambers

Park Row between Chambers Street and Broadway

Spruce Street between Gold Street and Park Row

Battery Place between Broadway and West Thames Street

Worth Street between Church and Baxter streets

No Brooklyn Bridge access to and from Park Row

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel's Trinity Place exit in Manhattan will be closed

Security

Thousands of extra uniformed and plainclothes police will be on duty.

Police will patrol subways with dogs capable of detecting explosives.

Snipers armed with high-powered weapons will be on some rooftops.

Some manhole covers will be sealed.

Garbage cans and mailboxes will be removed from some street corners.

Best viewing spot

A second--floor office in one of the office buildings along Broadway. Otherwise, get to the parade route early and claim a spot.

The crowd

The NYPD declines to give crowd estimates, but Big Blue's 2008 Super Bowl victory parade attracted more than 1 million fans.

Confetti

Shredded waste paper was provided by Atlas Materials of Red Hook, Brooklyn.

If you can't make it downtown

Watch it live on newsday.com/parade

TV/radio coverage

TV: WABC/7, WCBS/2, WNBC/4, WPIX/11, WNYW/5, WWOR/9, WXTV/41, WNJU/47, News12 Long Island, SNY and MSG. Coverage starts on most channels at 11 a.m. (SNY begins at 10:45 a.m.).

Radio: WFAN/660, WCBS/880, WINS/1010 and WEPN/1050.

Weather

Big Blue skies and sunny. High near 50. Light winds.

In New Jersey

Gov. Chris Christie will host a 3 p.m. rally for the team at MetLife Stadium.

Sources: MTA, NYPD, National Weather Service, AP

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