St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations New York
New York: A band of homesick Irish expatriates, soldiers who were serving in the British Army, marked the first St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City with a procession on March 17, 1762. Today, the parade down Fifth Avenue is the largest St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the world, with about a quarter of a million marchers and several million spectators.
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