Giants Super Bowl Parade Today

NEW YORK (AP / WCBS 880)  -- New York City plans to honor the Super Bowl champion New York Giants with a ticker-tape parade that will end with a ceremony at City Hall Plaza.

The parade is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. Tuesday on Broadway at Battery Place and is expected to follow a route north to Chambers Street.

The Lexington Avenue line serves the Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall, Fulton Street - Broadway Nassau, Wall Street, and Bowling Green stations in Lower Manhattan. Because of expected crowding, however, Giants fans are urged to use the line or the or lines to Rector Street, or the to World Trade Center. Fans should also consider taking the or lines to Chambers Street, the to Wall Street, or the to the Broad Street station.

Crowds near the City Hall station, the Park Place station and the Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall station may force trains to bypass these stations during the parade and ceremony at City Hall. GET MORE DETAILS>>

Taking the Metro-North or LIRR

Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road will be adding trains for people wanting to go to the Giant's Super Bowl victory parade tomorrow.

Metro North says on the Hudson Line, a train originating in Poughkeepsie at 8:41 a.m. will make stops in New Hamburg, Beacon and Peekskill and arrive in the city at 10:11 a.m. A return train departs at 2:36 p.m.

On the Harlem Line, a train departs Southeast at 8:30 a.m. and stops in Brewster, Goldens Bridge, Katonah, Mount Kisco, Chappaqua, North White Plains and White Plains. It arrives at Grand Central at 9:48 a.m. A return train departs at 3:25 p.m. GET MORE DETAILS>>

Taking NJ Transit

The World Trade Center station on the PATH system provides convenient access to the parade route. NJ TRANSIT will add extra cars to selected late-morning trains to provide additional capacity for Giants fans, and PATH has announced that they will double midday service between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. GET MORE DETAILS>>

Taking the PATH train

PATH will double its midday service to the World Trade Center on Tuesday, February 5, to accommodate fans attending the ticker-tape parade for the New York Giants, scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. in lower Broadway.

PATH will extend morning rush-hour service on the Newark-to-World Trade Center and Hoboken-to-World Trade Center routes from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. On the Newark-to-World Trade Center route, trains will run approximately every 7 to 8 minutes during the midday period, compared to every 15 minutes during a normal schedule. On the Hoboken-to-World Trade Center route, trains will run every six minutes during the midday period, compared to every 12 minutes during a normal schedule. GET MORE DETAILS>>

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Jared Max reports from Arizona