A sea of green stretched from West 44th Street and Fifth Avenue to 79th Street as parade-goers cheered for bagpipers, school bands and marching FDNY and NYPD officers.
Irish eyes were smiling as tens of thousands of revelers took to the sunny streets of Manhattan Friday for the nation’s oldest and largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Revelers basked in the warm weather, waved Irish flags and snapped photos as they spread out along the 35-block parade for the storied parade’s 262nd run. Teresa O’Connell, 63, said she’d been coming to the Irish street bash since the 1980s, and that she’s never missed a year“I like coming here celebrating my heritage, you know where my grandma came from,” said O’Connell, who is a first-generation American. The sea of green stretched up 35 blocks in Manhattan.“It’s exciting and you know, we have a large Irish community here, particularly around the civil service. This is a real blue-collar community,” he said.
He added, “When you think about the Irish community … during the Great Depression, they were able to come and lend their hands, sweat equity, and built the entire Empire State Building in one year.”
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