It\u2019s Christmas in June.<\/p>\n
Thousands of pounds of tiny white confetti shreds will rain down on the city as the champion New York Knicks parade through lower Manhattan for the biggest ticker-tape parade in Big Apple history.<\/a><\/p>\n A whopping 1.25 tons of confetti will be tossed onto the Canyon of Heroes in the Knicks\u2019 honor \u2014 which is a quarter more of the paper than what was dumped for the New York Liberty\u2019s parade<\/a> two years ago.<\/p>\n More than 2,500 pounds of confetti will rain on the Knicks as they parade down the Canyon of Heroes. Michael Nagle for NY Post<\/p>\n The Downtown Alliance ordered the extra paper shreds \u2014 equal in weight to a Honda Civic \u2014 after taking note of just how massive watch parties across the five boroughs had grown during the nail-biting NBA Finals.<\/p>\n \u201cIn every neighborhood of the city, neighbors were standing shoulder to shoulder, hugging strangers \u2014 it was something to behold,\u201d said Jessica Lappin, the alliance\u2019s president. \u201cWe expect that same kind of turnout on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the Thursday parade after the Knicks\u2019 historic victory over the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Saturday, leaving the Downtown Alliance just five days to secure the colossal amount of confetti.<\/p>\n But Lappin and her team were already on the case.<\/p>\n More than 2,000 pounds were dropped for the 2024 New York Liberty ticker tape parade. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n The crew started making plans to order the party paper as early as Game 3 of the finals \u2014 even though it was the only game of the series that the Knicks lost.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was a team of destiny, so we had some faith,\u201d Lappin told The Post.<\/p>\n The alliance secured 2,500 pounds of the crinkled packing paper from a ULINE packaging facility, upping the order by 500 pounds since the New York Liberty women\u2019s basketball team stormed the corridor in 2024.<\/p>\n The Knicks NBA championship victory is their first in 53 years. Charles Wenzelberg \/ NY Post<\/p>\n