Massive 'Hometown Heroes Parade' Will Honor NYC Frontline Workers

New York City NY

14 June, 2021

10:52 AM

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NEW YORK CITY — New York City's first true parade after the coronavirus crisis will be a massive, July 7 event honoring the frontline heroes who helped pulled the city through the pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. The "Hometown Heroes Parade" will be a ticker tape parade rolling through the Canyon of Heroes, de Blasio said Monday. He said it would honor health care and essential workers, as well as first responders. "Our health care heroes who were extraordinary and need to be remembered for the ages, our first responders, our essential workers — the people who kept us alive, the people who kept the city going no matter what," he said. De Blasio previously promised to hold a massive event as the city stepped from the pandemic's shadow. And it appears the city truly has turned a corner — average COVID-19 positivity stood at 0.59 percent as of Monday, the lowest level measured in the pandemic, de Blasio said. Other key coronavirus indicators dropped 95 percent since vaccinations against the coronavirus began. It's a stark contrast from the coronavirus's peak when 500 people died per day. "This year that we've been through has literally been the greatest crisis in the history of New York City," de Blasio said.