NEW YORK CITY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY PARADE

The Parade starts at 44th Street at 11 am and is held every March 17th, except when March 17th falls on a Sunday, it is celebrated the day before, Saturday the 16th because of religious observances.
The parade marches up Fifth Avenue past St. Patrick's Cathedral at 50th Street all the way up past the American Irish Historical Society at 83rd and the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 83rd Street to 86th Street, where the parade finishes around 4:30 - 5:00 pm

The St. Patrick's Day Parade is one of New York City's greatest traditions. On this day, everyone is Irish in the Big Apple!

The Parade marched for the first time on March 17, 1762 - fourteen Years before the Declaration of Independence was adopted and today it is the largest Parade in the World.

This annual parade has been held for the past 248 years in honor of the Patron Saint of Ireland and the Archdiocese of New York. The Parade is reviewed from the steps of Saint Patrick's Cathedral by His Eminence Cardinal Edward Eagan, Archbishop of New York in the same manner as the Archbishop of New York did in the early days of the Parade at the Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in Lower Manhattan when the Parade was held in Lower Manhattan before the new St Patrick’s was built on Fifth Avenue.

Often regarded as the most popular parade in New York City, the Parade is the largest and most famous of the many parades held in the city each year.

Beware of Fake 9/11 Coins

Just before Christmas, retired NYPD Capt. Tom DePrisco saw a TV commercial at his fiancée's house and his "blood began to boil."

The commercial was for a 10th anniversary Sept. 11 commemorative dollar coin issued by the National Collector's Mint out of Westchester. The ad said this exploitative trinket featured "the skyline of the twin towers."

But what roiled DePrisco's Brooklyn blood was the phrase "clad in a total 14 mg. 999 pure silver actually recovered from the vaults beneath the ashes of Ground Zero."

"That's just pure bull----," said DePrisco, who after 9/11 was assigned to the city Office of Emergency Management to help handle recovery efforts around Ground Zero.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/26/2011-01-26_10th_anniversary_collectors_piece_said_to_be_ground_zero_silver_but_man_who_help.html#ixzz1CGvqh5l5

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On September 11th, 2001, the world was changed forever. From the Firefighters, Police and EMS personnel at the World Trade Center in New York City to the personnel working at the Pentagon in Washington, DC and the passengers of United Flight 93 that went down in a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, hundreds of everyday people instantly became our heroes and we find this ten year milestone an important time to pause and reflect on what their actions have meant to us. In what could have been our darkest hour, these everyday heroes stepped forward without a second thought to give everything to help their fellow man rise above these cowardly events.
With the tenth anniversary of the tragic events that unfolded on that day just over the horizon, we wish to honor those that gave their lives with a series of commemorative patches, pins, coins and apparel to mark this solemn anniversary. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this series of commemorative items will be donated to (to be announced) and the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation in Ottawa, Ontario. Please show your support by purchasing any of these commemorative items.