Yankees Ticker Tape Parade Coverage: Pics, Live Videos, & Tweets

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Yankees Ticker Tape Parade

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The New York Yankees' ticker tape parade kicked off today at 11AM ET, with temperatures hovering around 44 degrees in the sun, and mid 30s in the shade.  Lower Manhattan was filled with hundreds of thousands of Yankee fans going bonkers as Yankee players, management, and legendary Hall of Famers were carried on floats down Broadway, dubbed the "Canyon of Heroes".

Prominent names on the lead float:

1. Yogi Berra: greatest living Yankee (age 84), 10-time World Series champion (most of any Yankee)
   
2. Hideki Matsui: 2009 World Series MVP

Last Float:

1. Mariano Rivera:  Only the greatest closer of all-time.  It's fitting that the greatest closer gets placed in the last float.

Celebrity sighting:

1. Brooklyn's Jay-Z was spotted on the same float as A-Rod. 

Former NYC Mayors in attendance at City Hall ceremony:  

1. Rudy Giuliani
2. David Dinkins
3. Ed Koch.

WFAN.com has live radio streaming coverage of the entire parade.  Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts is doing play-by-play coverage from City Hall, with a plethora of interviews with former Yankee greats. 

Hot rumor confirmed by Benigno and Roberts:  George Steinbrenner will be presented with the key to New York City by Mayor Mike Bloomberg at a ceremony at City Hall.  It is expected to happen around 1PM ET.   3:43PM ET UPDATE:  George Steinbrenner was not at the parade nor was he at City Hall to receive his key.

Tweets,
Yankee RF Nick Swisher:  This is nuts and so much fun! I'm taking movies of the crowd! Have never seen anything like this! I love it and I love New York!

NY Post live blogging of the parade