• New York is ready to party like it’s … 1973. Knicks fans started lining up overnight for the team’s NBA championship parade, which kicks off at 10 a.m. • Officials are expecting potentially record-setting crowds for the ticker-tape parade in Lower Manhattan, on a stretch of Broadway Street known as the Canyon of Heroes. • The New York Police Department is deploying its largest number of officers to a planned event in the city’s history.