when they have a big parade in NYC and you see it on the news...where do those confetti come from? And who throws them?... Do they drop those things on the roof of the building?..
Throwing confetti, or ticker tape, to celebrated to team wining a championship or someone s historic feat, dates back to the late 1880s when office workers on Wall Street will use ticker tape as confetti and toss it out the window to the street below, hence the name ticker-tape parade .Today, due to safety and security concerns, the practice of throwing ticker tape out of office widows has become less frequent. However, the practice is still carried out. The Lower Manhattan business improvement district, aka the Downtown Alliance, handles all the confetti preparation. The Alliance distributes bag of ticker tape, which is blank shredded paper to offices along the parade route. This done by request.The Alliance, with the permission from the building s owner, can also toss confetti off the roof of an office high rise. Sometime the Alliance will use an empty office, as long as the windows could open.The practice of throwing confetti is also use in Times Square, when the clock strikes 12am on January 1st. The folks in charge of the event, the Times Square Alliance, is also in charge of tossing confetti off the roof and windows of nearby buildings.I hope this information is very helpful.Good luckNative New Yorker
Anyone and everyone..the parades pass by office buildings and homes and people enjoy to do this.. it is like a tradition lolbut im pretty sure that the parade has special workers set up on certain rooftops and they end up dropping conffetti at some point just in case nobody does it =D