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2008- 247th New York City Saint
Patrick's Day Parade
Monday, March 17th 2008
Starting @ 44th Street and Fifth Avenue @11:00
a.m.
The Solemn Pontifical Mass at St. Patrick's
Cathedral
50th Street and Fifth Avenue @ 8:30 a.m.
 Last years was dedicated to the fighting
69th-
Taskforce Wolfhound who served in Iraq
and the 19 who were killed in action.
2004 New York City
Saint
Patrick's Day Parade Photo's
Tribute
to the "Fighting 69th"
69th Infantry, New York Army National Guard,
The 69th Regiment of New York
Saint Patrick's Day Photo's
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Grand Marshal Thomas W. Gleason Photo's
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Marching for the 246th Consecutive Year Up Fifth Avenue in New York City -
Marched for the first time on March 17, 1762 - Sixteen Years before the
Declaration of Independence was adopted.
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The
Parade will be reviewed from the steps of Saint Patrick's Cathedral by His
Eminence Cardinal Edward Eagan, Archbishop of New York. It will also be
reviewed from the Official Reviewing Stand at 64th Street and 5th Avenue.
The
parade marches up 5th Avenue, clan by clan, from 44th to 86th
streets starting at 11am on St. Patrick's Day (March
17th).
2004 New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade Photo's
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New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade Photo's
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69th Infantry, New York Army National Guard,
The 69th Regiment of New York
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Tribute to our New York City Fire Department (NYFD)
2003 New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade
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Now
Marching for the 246th Consecutive Year Up Fifth Avenue in New York City -
Marched for the first time on March 17, 1762 - Sixteen Years before the
Declaration of Independence was adopted.
The
Parade will be reviewed from the steps of Saint Patrick's Cathedral by His
Eminence Cardinal Edward Eagan, Archbishop of New York. It will also
be reviewed from the Official Reviewing Stand at 64th Street and 5th Avenue.
The parade marches up 5th Avenue, clan by clan, from 44th to 86th
streets
starting at 11am on St. Patrick's Day (March 17th).
Last year marked the 242nd New York St. Patrick's Day
Parade, the world's largest. Mayor Bloomberg marched along with nearly 150,000 others proudly
wearing the green, as millions gawk along the parade route and watch on
TV.
Four years ago parade was dedicated to the
'Heroes of 9/11, ' including police, fire and all rescue workers. At
around midday, the parade will pause for one minute as Cardinal Egan leads
participants in a prayer from the reviewing stand at 64th Street and 5th
Avenue. It's a reminder that St. Paddy's Day is a religious holiday back
in the motherland, even though for New Yorkers it's a chance to party
hardy like any good Irishman. There probably isn't a bigger day when green
face paint, green food coloring, green nail polish, and green clothes are
on display. And there's pure Irish pageantry, of course, led by the 165th
Infantry (originally the 69th Regiment of the 1850's). You'll see the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, 30 Irish county societies and various
Emerald, Irish-language and Irish nationalist societies. The parade marches up 5th Avenue, clan by clan, from 44th to 86th streets
starting at 11am on St. Patrick's Day (March 17th). It will probably be
televised on NBC.
The first official parade in the City was held in 1766 by
Irishmen in a military unit recruited to serve in the American colonies.
 For the
first few years of its existence, the parade was organized by military units
until after the war of 1811. At that point in time, Irish fraternal and
beneficial societies took over the duties of hosting and sponsoring the event.
 Originally, Irish societies joined together at their
respective meeting places and moved in a procession toward St. Patrick's Old
Cathedral, St. James Church, or one of the many other Roman Catholic churches in
the City. However, as the years passed, the size of the parade increased and
around the year 1851, as individual societies merged under a single grand
marshal, the size of the parade grew sharply.
Each year a unit of soldiers marches at the head of the
parade; the Irish 165th Infantry (originally the 69th Regiment of the 1850's)
has become the parade's primary escort, and they are followed by the various
Irish societies of the city. Some of the other major sponsors and participants
in the parade are the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the thirty Irish county
societies, and various Emerald, Irish-language, and Irish nationalist societies.
 The
annual parade down Fifth Avenue to honor the patron saint of Ireland is a New
York tradition that dates as far back as 1766. The festivities kick off at 44th
Street and Fifth Avenue at 11:00 am on
March 17th,
with bagpipers, high school bands, and the ever-present politicians making their
way up Fifth Avenue to 86th Street, where the parade will probably finish around
4:30 or 5:00 pm.
 The best viewing spots are toward the
north end of the parade route, away from the shopping and work-a-day crowds that
throng the sidewalks below 59th Street. Try sitting on the upper steps of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art for a great view or
catching a close-up view of the marchers where the parade turns east on 86th
Street.
The parade marches up 5th Avenue, from 44th to 86th streets
starting at 11am on St. Patrick's Day (March 17th). It will probably be
televised on NBC.
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