Timpone

The New England Patriots may be slight favorites going into the Super Bowl, but Joe Timpone has spent all week acting as if the Giants have already won it.

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"Uh oh, here we go again," Timpone remembered thinking after the Giants beat the San Francisco 49ers.

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As the resident experts on that stretch of Broadway, he and the Alliance are aware of every pothole, construction project and trash can along the parade route, information that Timpone passes along to the Department of Transportation and the Department of Buildings.

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Timpone is the senior vice president for operations at the Alliance for Downtown New York, which maintains the stretch of Broadway known as the Canyon of Heroes.

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And whether or not the Giants earn a ticker-tape parade there next week, Timpone has been getting ready since the moment they booked their spot in the Super Bowl.

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"A lot of security issues have changed," Timpone said.

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Timpone, a veteran of more than a dozen parades in his time with the Downtown Alliance and 31 years at the Department of Sanitation, has seen it all before.

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The Alliance's division of 50 street cleaners then deploys for a curb-to-curb cleaning of Broadway for the morning of the parade, Timpone said, to remove "anything that can be used as missiles or anything that people could stand on and put themselves in danger as well as other people."

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Timpone has already compiled a list of the buildings that will claim a share of one ton of recycled paper shreddings, provided by a materials company in Brooklyn.

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Timpone, a merry muckraker who worked as a statehouse reporter for a CBS-affiliated television station in Illinois in the 1990s, hasn't asked the homeowners for permission.

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