Exclusive | NYC pols demand party-pooper Mayor Mamdani throw ticker-tape parade for Artemis II astronauts: Make this happen!
A bipartisan group of NYC pols are urging party-pooping Mayor Zohran Mamdani to throw a ticker-tape parade for the Artemis II astronauts — the first space-travelers that would ride down the Canyon of Heroes since the 1969 moon landing.But NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin, Minority Leader David Carr and other pols fear Hizzoner will throw a wet blanket on the out-of-this-world celebration, given that the socialist mayor has already coldly banned the public from attending the Times Square ball drop celebrating America’s 250th birthday on July 4.The pols say the heroic Artemis II crew — and city residents of all political stripes — deserve to party.“In a world that has become increasingly polarized and often hostile, there are very few events that bring us all together to remind us of the joy of human existence and the beauty of the planet we all share,” wrote Menin (D-Manhattan), Carr (R-Staten Island), Deputy Speaker Nantasha Williams (D-Queens) and Councilman Frank Morano (R-Staten Island) in a letter to Mamdani on Friday.“The historic Artemis II mission was one of them.”The city hasn’t thrown a ticker-tape parade for astronauts since Mayor John Lindsay and 4 million New Yorkers welcomed Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on Aug.
13, 1969, three weeks after Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon.The Artemis II mission marked humankind’s first visit to the moon since 1972, and set a new distance record for manned space travel.It captured never-before-seen images of the far side of the moon, making the four crew members more than worthy of a motorcade in the Financial District, the council members insisted in the letter obtained by The Post.“The Artemis II astronauts boldly went where no other humans had gone before, traveling 252,760 miles from Earth during their nine-day voyage around the moon — the farthest any humans have ever traveled,” they wrote.“But we believe their mission is ...