Festive air as New York City fetes Yankees

NEW YORK (AP) — A festive air is filling Wall Street as the New York Yankees' World Series celebration revs up with a ticker-tape parade.

At a subway station near the parade route, fans packed the staircase chanting, "Let's go Yankees!" and crooning "New York, New York."

Revelers arrived early Friday to get a good spot along the route. After the jubilant baseball players ride on parade floats to City Hall Plaza, the mayor will give them the keys to the city.

Bells will peal at historic Trinity Church.

Lower Broadway is known as the Canyon of Heroes. Some 200 ticker-tape parades have been held there.

Hideki Matsui's record-tying six RBIs helped the Yankees to the 7-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. New York won the series 4-2.

Yankees fans had waited nine years since the team's previous World Series title, a Subway Series against their crosstown rivals, the Mets, in 2000.