HOMETOWN HEROES
HOMETOWN HEROES
honored with extravagant parade
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Kicking off at 11 a.m. in
Battery Park, the event
was helmed by Mayor
Bill de Blasio, First Lady
Chirlane Irene McCray,
and the parade’s grand
marshal Sandra Lindsay,
a Queens nurse who was
the first person in the
United States to receive
the COVID-19 vaccine.
While several politicians
including Senate
Majority Leader Charles
Schumer, Congresswoman
Carolyn Maloney,
and Democrat primary
mayoral candidate
Eric Adams extended
their arms in gratitude,
the eyes of the city were
firmly set on the cavalcade
of essential workers
who kept the city going
through the harshest of
times.
PHOTO BY DEAN MOSES
Mayor de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray met with Sandra Lindsay, the first nurse to
receive the vaccine in the Untied States.
PHOTO BY DEAN MOSES
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One nurse filmed the parade on her phone.
PHOTO BY DEAN MOSES
PHOTO BY DEAN MOSES
“No stopping New York!”
Mayor Bill de Blasio waved to onlookers.
PHOTO BY DEAN MOSES
There were 14 floats representing 260 essential workers.
PHOTO BY DEAN MOSES
A boy calls his nurse mother a hero.