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2008 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.
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Congratulations to the 2007 New York City Saint
Patrick's Day Parade Grand Marshal Raymond L. Flynn
A tribute to the fighting 69th-
Taskforce Wolfhound
who served in Iraq and the 19 who were killed in
action.
Tribute to the "Fighting 69th
Infantry", New York Army National Guard,
The 69th Regiment of New York
New
York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade Photos
A
Tribute to our New York City Fire Department (NYFD)
Saint Patrick's Day Photos
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Marching for the 247th 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.
More....
This
year tba will be the 2008 New York City Saint Patrick's
Day Parade Grand Marshal.
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 (Monday, March 17th).
Former Grand Marshal include: 2007 Grand Marshal
Raymond L. Flynn,
2006 Grand Marshal
Timothy J. Rooney,
2005 Grand Marshal
Denis P. Kelleher, 2004 Grand
Marshal Thomas W. Gleason and 2003
James G. O'Connor was the Grand Marshal
the year before, and Mayor Bloomberg marched along with nearly 150,000
others proudly wearing the green, as millions gawk along the parade route
and watch on TV.
Six year ago marked the 241st New York St.
Patrick's Day Parade, the world's largest. Edward Cardinal Egan was the
Grand Marshall, and Mayor Bloomberg will marched along with nearly 150,000
others proudly wearing the green, as millions gawk along the parade route
and watch on TV.
Several 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 (Monday, 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
Monday,
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 New York Convention & Visitors Bureau says that the St. Patrick's Day Parade
is the largest and most famous of the many parades held in the city each year.
Colonial
New York City hosted the first official St. Patrick's Day parade in 1762, when
Irish immigrants in the British colonial army marched down city streets. In
subsequent years Irish fraternal organizations also held processions to St.
Patrick's Cathedral. The various groups merged sometime around 1850 to form a
single, grand parade.
The
parade marches up 5th Avenue, from 44th to 86th streets starting at 11am on St.
Patrick's Day (Monday, March 17th). It will probably be televised on NBC.
The Central Park transverse roads will stay open to traffic.
Pedestrian crossing along the parade route will be allowed on 49th Street to
55th Street, 57th Street and 58th Street, 59th Street eastbound only and 60th
Street westbound only.
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