Talk:List of ticker-tape parades in New York City

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I'm using Jackson EofNYC for a reference. It's got a complete list up to its date of publication, which is 1995, and I plan to enter them all eventually, so it's not necessary to rack your brains about that era (especially Mets fans. I will put those in very quickly). However, I have only a personal recollection from the ones since 1995, so if you can think of any in that era, it would be especially helpful (maybe a website listing) -- Decumanus 22:30, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Listing in Jackson up through 1991 is now complete. -- Decumanus 07:46, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Decumanus, please check -- rbs 2004-02-08 08:14 UTC
 * 1939-04-27. You have two parades on same date.
 * 1962-03-01. Several websites I've seen indicate all the Mercury 7 astronauts were in the parade.
 * 1991-06-25. The site at here indicates parade was on 06-21.

I did think Alan Shepard (on Mercury 3 ) and possibly Wally Schirra got parades, but my impression (if I'm recalling the The Right Stuff correctly) is that Grissom did not, because he "screwed the pooch" by blowing the hatch open. In the movie he whines about "not getting his parade" (which he did, but with Gemini 3). But I'm hesistant to go off a movie, and the web sites I've seen too could be just parotting misinformation, which would be easy to do in this case. I think Wolfe's book might be the best source. The EofNY entry was supposedly compiled by records from the mayor's office, but given its length, its possible something got left out (although it would be a fairly big oversight by the researcher to leave out Shepard). Also there is no mention of Jack Binns. I found the web site saying he received a "ticker-tape" parade. I wonder, however, if it was a "ticker-tape" parade, considering it would have been the first one in over a decade at that point, but in the absence of contradictory info, I think it should stay in. Regarding the date of the Korean War veterans parade, I double-checked the entry and that's the date it quotes. They were both weekdays in 1991, so it doesn't help to distinguish them. If you think the date is in error, I'm fine with your changing it. As for the astronauts, it would be nice to find an authoritative source. I have no doubt Wolfe researched his book carefully, so if it's in there, then that would fine by me. In the absence of other confirmation, however, I would rather leave something off than put it on. My philosophy is that to leave something off is not misinformation (since the list is claimed as "partial" anyway). -- Decumanus 20:08, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * By the way rbs, thanks for your eagle eyes in finding things. I have no doubt I botched some dates and will have to double check against the list I have later in any case. -- Decumanus 20:09, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Regarding the atsronauts: The website astronautix.com indicates that Shepard received a big parade in Washington, DC, but no mention of a parade in NYC. Astronautix also indicates the parade on 1962-03-01 was for "John Glenn Day". Glenn and Robert Gilruth received the city's "meaal of honor", but no else was hnored. I found no mention of a parade specifically for Schirra. BTW: The Right Stuff was on cable last night while I was writing a couple Wiki entries. -- rbs 2004-02-08 20:43 UTC


 * Excellent research.-- Decumanus 21:03, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Inserts on both sides of the sidewalk on Broadway list the parades in date order starting at Battery Park and going North. Does anyone know if NYC has a list of these inserts/parades?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.65.68.24 (talk • contribs) 15:47, 15 July 2004 (UTC)

I'd be willing to compile their locations. Would the nearest street address be an appropriate way of listing them? Perimeter285 (talk) 19:51, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

I have doubts about Einstein.
I checked the NY Times archives 1850-1980. There are articles mentioning an enthusiastic reception, but not mention of a ticker tape parade. I do see it mentioned in contemporary news papers running lists of TT parades. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geo8rge (talk • contribs) 23:27, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Your are correct. I deleted the Einstein ticker-tape parade. Oksuzanne (talk) 23:25, 23 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Unless you have an RS that says it wasn't it should stay. I added Time.com's mentioning of it. Plenty of RS say it happened -  Galatz Talk  18:35, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

I have done an intensive investigation of whether Albert Einstein had a ticker-tape parade. My conclusion is that he and his wife did not have a ticker-tape parade upon their arrival by boat in New York City on April 2, 1921.

Ticker-tape parades are unique New York City parades. Those honored proceed from the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan, up Broadway (known as the "Canyon of Heroes") to City Hall. As note in the Alliance for Downtown New York's website "hundreds of thousand of spectators crowd sidewalks and look down from skyscraper windows. They cheer and shout and toss confetti in a shower that becomes a blizzard of shredded paper falling on the motorcade below." The "confetti" and "shredded paper" was originally the paper ticker tape thrown from windows of companies along Broadway that had ticker-tape machines.

Kenneth Jackson's The Encyclopedia of New York City, (Yale University Press, 2nd edition, 2010), which has the definitive list of ticker-tape parades, does not mention a ticker-tape parade for Einstein. In The New York Times, April 3, 1921, "Prof. Einstein here, Explains Relativity," reported: "The crowds were packed deeply along the Battery wall, waving Jewish flags of white with two blue bars, wearing buttons with Zionist inscriptions, and cheering themselves hoarse as the police host John F. Hyland drew near. Dozens of automobiles were parked near the landing and when the welcoming committee and the visitors had entered them they started uptown to the Hotel Commodore, preceded by a police escort. They turned into Second Avenue, where the sidewalks were lined nearly all the way uptown with thousands who waved hands and handkerchiefs and shouted welcome to the visitors." The picture of Einstein standing in the car that begins Chapter 13 of the biography has no ticker tape.

Walter Isaacson's biography "Einstein," (Simon & Schuster, 2009) describes the Einsteins' welcome in Chapter 13, "The Wandering Zionist," on p. 293-294: "The Einsteins and Weizmanns intended to head directly to the Hotel Commodore in Midtown. Instead, their motorcade wound through the Jewish neighborhoods of the Lower East Side late into the evening.'Every car had its horn, and every horn was put in action,'Weizmann recalled. 'We reached the Commodore at about 11:30, tired, hungry, thirsty and completely dazed." Isaacson's footnote cites quotes and descriptions from April 3, 1921 stories in newspapers, including The New York Times.

In the article in The Atlantic, December 2009 issue, "How Einstein Divided America's Jews," Isaacson repeats the initial welcome New Yorkers gave the Einsteins, tracking what he wrote in his biography of the scientist. There clearly was a motorcade and cheering crowds, but not along Broadway and not any ticker tape.

The strange "fact" of the Einstein ticker-tape parade was added by an IP address in late October 2009. This misinformation was apparently relied on by Laura Fitzpatrick in a Time magazine article, November 6, 2009, "A Brief History of Ticker-Tape Parades." In the July 20, 2015 "A Ticker-Tape Parade for Team U.S.A.," Andrew Marantz in The New Yorker's Talk of the Town erroneously mentions a ticker-tape parade for Einstein, along with other notables' parades along "the stretch of Broadway known as the Canyon of Heroes.--Oksuzanne (talk) 20:06, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I would tend to believe the Encyclopedia in this. BMK (talk) 20:51, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * There's also nothing in the New York Times archive. BMK (talk) 20:54, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've removed this now, as there is actually no ticker-tape parade mention in Isaacson, the TIME listing is dubious and a probable example of Wikipedia citogenesis, and this is absent from authoritative sources such as TEONYC. (I advised Oksuzanne on her original comment, we were working together in-person at an editathon.)--Pharos (talk) 23:56, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Jack Binns
I've removed Jack Binns from the list, as I've spoken to Downtown Alliance in New York City and they say their researcher turned up no evidence to support it. They have never placed a commemorative plaque, so I guess that is their official position. Unless somebody can provide good evidence that it did occur, I don't think his name should be replaced on the list. Emma May Smith (talk) 21:25, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Ralph Bunche
Does anyone have any specific information about when the ticker-tape parade for Ralph Bunche occurred? The only references I can find only mention it in passing. There's no marker listing for it in HMDB (though its list of the NYC ticker tape parade markers appears to be incomplete) and I can't find a record of the parade in the NYT archives either.

I'm not claiming this didn't happen, but I was curious about where "December 1950" came from. The Arab-Israeli Armistice Agreements happened in 1949, which is why I am confused. If someone had a proper source, I would be appreciative. 68.203.139.89 (talk) 17:53, 18 November 2022 (UTC)