New York's Strongest Prepare to Celebrate — and Clean — After Thursday's Ticker-Tape Parade

June 17, 2026

The Department of Sanitation is thrilled to be celebrating the Knicks with fellow New Yorkers this Thursday morning. As always, as the last parade contingent marches up the Canyon of Heroes, New York's Strongest, many of them in Knicks caps, will be right behind, cleaning our streets and sidewalks.

DSNY plans to have 70 Sanitation officers and 650 Sanitation Workers – along with collection trucks, mechanical brooms and backpack blowers – on Broadway and surrounding streets to ensure they are clean and ready to reopen soon after the parade ends. 

Sanitation Workers are well prepared for this event, having cleaned after recent ticker-tape parades and every other citywide event, from the New Year's ball drop to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The following are amounts of material collected after recent ticker-tape parades:

• October 2024, NY Liberty, 40,460 pounds
• July 2021, Hometown Heroes, 21,460 pounds
• July 2019, Women's World Cup, 52,740 pounds
• July 2015, Women's World Cup, 59,280 pounds

"The 10,000 members of the Department are proud of our New York Knicks and, after our celebration, we expect to be equally proud of our clean streets and public spaces downtown," said DSNY Commissioner Gregory Anderson. "It may take some time, but please be assured that the Strongest are on it."

For more information on the parade, visit nyc.gov/knicks. 

Press Release #26-26