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ICYMI: Oceanside Nurse 'Couldn't Say No' To Ticker Tape Parade

Registered Nurse Mariana Peredo was part of the Hometown Heroes parade in lower Manhattan.

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Mount Sinai South Nassau's Michael Watson, Hamera Bhutta, and Mariana Peredo joined the Hometown Heroes parade Wednesday.
Mount Sinai South Nassau's Michael Watson, Hamera Bhutta, and Mariana Peredo joined the Hometown Heroes parade Wednesday. (Mount Sinai South Nassau )

OCEANSIDE, NY — It was a day Mayor Bill DeBlasio envisioned more than a year ago. A ticker-tape parade down the vaunted Canyon of Heroes, but this time the streets of Broadway weren't filled with sports heroes.

On Wednesday, the heroes were frontline health care workers heroes, honored for putting their lives on the line to protect so many people with COVID-19.

Mariana Peredo is a registered nurse, who was among three staffers (Michael Watson/mechanic, and Hamera Bhutta/physician's assistant) selected to represent Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in the parade.

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Click here to read the full Patch interview with Mariana.

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