NYC honors essential workers at parade up Canyon of Heroes
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NEW YORK - Essential workers who helped New York City through the COVID-19 pandemic were honored Wednesday with a parade up Broadway - nurses, doctors, first responders, teachers, bus drivers and more riding on floats through a canyon of tall buildings and falling confetti.
The parade stretched from Battery Park to City Hall, led up Broadway in lower Manhattan by grand marshal Sandra Lindsay, a health care worker who was the first person in the country to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot. "What a difference a year makes," said Lindsay. "Fifteen months ago, we were in a much different place but thanks to the heroic efforts of so many - health care workers, first responders, frontline workers, the people who fed us, the people who put their lives on the line, we can’t thank them enough,” she said.More Related News