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====Canyon of Heroes====
{{see also|List of ticker-tape parades in New York City}}
[[File:Apollo 11 ticker tape parade 2.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Canyon of Heroes during a ticker-tape parade for the [[Apollo 11]] [[Apollo astronauts|astronaut]]s on August 13, 1969]]
''Canyon of Heroes'' is occasionally used to refer to the section of lower Broadway in the [[Financial District, Manhattan|Financial District]] that is the location of the city's [[ticker-tape parade]]s. The traditional route of the parade is northward from [[Bowling Green (New York City)|Bowling Green]] to [[City Hall Park]]. Most of the route is lined with tall office buildings along both sides, affording a view of the parade for thousands of office workers who create the snowstorm-like jettison of shredded paper products that characterize the parade.<ref>{{cite web |title=New York City's Ticker-Tape Parades |website=Downtown Alliance |date=October 19, 1960 |url=https://www.downtownny.com/new-york-citys-ticker-tape-parades |access-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810031801/https://www.downtownny.com/new-york-citys-ticker-tape-parades |url-status=live }}</ref>

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the [[Victory over Japan Day|V-J Day]] parade on August 14–15, 1945 – marking the end of [[World War II]] – was covered with 5,438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the [[New York City Department of Sanitation]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Q & A: Today's Giants Ticker-Tape Parade |url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/q-a-todays-giants-ticker-tape-parade/ |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=February 5, 2008 |access-date=August 4, 2008 |archive-date=September 6, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906165047/http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/q-a-todays-giants-ticker-tape-parade/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

More than 200 black granite strips embedded in the sidewalks along the Canyon of Heroes list honorees of past ticker-tape parades.<ref>{{cite news |title=Super Bowl-Winning Giants Get Canyon of Heroes Honor |first=Fernanda |last=Santos |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/nyregion/11bloomberg.html |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 11, 2008 |access-date=August 4, 2008 |quote=The plaque is one of the more than 200 granite strips in a route known as the Canyon of Heroes, marking those who have been honored by the city with ticker-tape parades. |archive-date=May 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513075912/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/nyregion/11bloomberg.html |url-status=live }}</ref>