NEW YORK (WABC) -- The New York Knicks will be honored in Manhattan on Thursday with a ticker-tape parade and it could be the biggest parade the city has ever seen.
There could potentially be millions of fans lined up along the Canyon of Heroes on Thursday.
Following the parade, Mayor Zohran Mamdani will host a championship celebration and Key to the City ceremony on City Hall Plaza.
The Knicks captured their first NBA championship in 53 years, setting off days of celebrations across the city and paving the way for what is expected to be a historic turnout on Thursday.
Starting at 4:30 a.m. Thursday, the following subway stations will be closed. They will reopen following the parade and ceremony at City Hall.
Wall Street (4, 5)
City Hall (R, W)
The following stations will be open, but some entrances and exits may be closed:
Bowling Green (4, 5)
Fulton (4,5,J,Z,2,3)
Brooklyn Bridge (4,5,6)
Chambers St (J,Z)
Park Place (2,3)
The Children's Museum of Manhattan is hosting a ticker-tape parade for NYC's youngest Knicks fans.
Amy Schumer and Jessica Seinfeld will be the Grand Marshals of the parade that kicks off at 4 p.m. Wednesday on West 83rd Street between Broadway and Amsterdam.
There will be confetti cannons, a live drum performance and a kid-sized championship celebration.
NYPD officials say there will be more than 10,000 members of the NYPD assigned to the parade, the largest number of officers ever assigned to any planned event.
The members of the NYPD will include heavy weapons teams, explosive detection K9s, transportation, transit, highway, aviation, drones, and more.
They say there will be assets you see and assets you don't see.
"We want people to enjoy this moment. We want this to be a safe and memorable celebration for Knicks fans and for New York City, but public safety comes first, and we are planning accordingly," said Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
The ceremonial key to the city, to be presented to the Knicks, is the first key designed without the city seal and features an apple instead.
Instead, it focuses on Mamdani's "own civic identity" and showcases the city's "diversity and dynamism."
Up until this point, the keys have been replicas of the 1812 key made for a door to City Hall.
The keys were manufactured by Azra Khalfan, who owns Plaques by Azra in Queens.
They were designed by Aneesh Bothaphy, who developed the Mamdani campaign branding. The typography is from the Mamdani campaign was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones.
