Photographs: Robbie Bailey

Revel in the glory New York. The Yankees paraded up the Canyon of Heroes on Friday, before Mayor Bloomberg awarded them the keys to the city and Jay-Z performed “Empire State of Mind.” Photographer Robbie Bailey was there to capture it all for TONY.

Video by Karina Granda and Liz Kreutz

What happens when you give a Yankees fan a Cracker Jack? We went down to the World Series ticker-tape parade to find out.

Updated with how to enter to win tickets for the 1pm ceremony.

Is your heart swelling with pride today? Can you almost taste the salty tears of defeat streaming down your Phillies-supporting cubemate’s face? (We can, ha!) Tastes sweet, doesn’t it?

Start preparing your excuse for missing work so you can attend the ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes today, Friday, November 6. The parade will begin on Broadway at Battery Place at 11am and proceed north to Chambers Street with the sidewalks open to the public.

The parade will culminate with a ceremony at 1pm in City Hall Plaza, when Mayor Bloomberg will present the Yankees with the keys to the city. The ceremony will be shown on a large screen in City Hall Park.

Wish to gaze at the site of success? Take our neighborhood tour of the new Yankee stadium.

It would be easy to write off Bernie Williams’s second album, Moving Forward, as just another product of an ex-athlete with too much time on his hands. Hell, Allen Iverson didn’t even wait until midcareer to unleash his trenchant raps upon an unsuspecting world back in 2000. Bernie, though, is an actual musician, and the track we really want to point your attention to (because we’re sadists) is his cover of that Jon Secada song, which Bernie records alongside the Cuban singer himself. (This song has been going through my head since around 1993.)

It’s just another dayyyyy. Whoooaaaa… Oh, sorry. Got caught up in those Latin rhythms. Anyway, while on the subject of musical endeavors by athletes, anyone else ever wonder what happened to all those ballers featured in Hammer’s “2 Legit” video? Eh? [Via Deadspin]