NYPD deploying 10,000 officers for historic Knicks championship parade

Police have implemented an elevated security operation in response to the heightened threat environment.

Millions of jubilant fans are expected to congregate in Lower Manhattan on Thursday morning for the Knicks championship parade, a celebratory coda to a postseason run that united New York City like no other event in recent memory.

Historically, the country’s largest police department uses such assessments to determine how many officers to deploy to an event; the NYPD is expected to send more than 10,000 members to the parade as it winds through the Wall Street corridor.

The New York Knicks are NBA champions, and New York City is about to celebrate something generations of fans have waited their entire lives to see.