Exclusive | NYCs confetti king has retired after two decades heres who will be powering Libertys ticker-tape parade

He’s passed the torch.The New York Liberty’s ticker-tape parade on Thursday will be among the first without the longtime “Confetti King” shepherding the festivities along Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes.Joe Timpone, who procured paper shreds for more than a dozen parades in his 20 years with the Downtown Alliance, retired in 2015 – and a new fleet of confetti connoisseurs has assumed his responsibilities.“While no one could ever take the mantle of ‘Confetti King,’ Joe passed the torch to a new generation of Confetti Captains,” Downtown Alliance President Jessica Lappin told The Post Tuesday.The upcoming celebration of the Liberty’s WNBA championship title will be the first of a New York team without Timpone, who also racked up parade-planning experience in his three decades with the city Department of Sanitation.“We always plan ahead, because just in case they win, we have to be ready,” said Daniel Giacomazza, Downtown Alliance’s vice president of operations, who now handles confetti logistics alongside senior vice president of operations Ron Wolfgang.“We had faith in the Liberty,” added Lappin.“A few days before, we started to talk to the city and plan internally.

But, you don’t want to pull the trigger on a ton of paper until they did delight everyone in their big, exciting, dramatic win.”The Liberty won their first WNBA title on Sunday night — giving both the city and the Downtown Alliance less than four days to hit the ground running on plans for the celebration.Their longtime supplier, which donated recycled confetti free-of-charge, went out of business since the last ticker-tape parade in 2021 — leaving the non-profit group scrambling for a new vendor this time around, Lappin said.The 2,000 pounds of crinkled packing paper garnered for the upcoming parade — which cost about $5,000 – was ordered earlier this week from a ULINE packaging facility and will be bagged and distributed Wednesday, Giacomazza said.More than 10...