For those of you looking to frolic in
New York City
, check out the
NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade
, which is a twenty-minute ride from
Dharma’s Novia property at Hoboken
. According to their site, this parade is one of “New York City’s greatest traditions. The first parade was on March 17, 1762 — fourteen years before the
signing of the United States
Declaration of Independence. The first NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade was comprised of a band of homesick, Irish ex-patriots and Irish military members serving with the British Army stationed in the colonies in New York. This was a time
when the wearing of green
was a sign of
Irish pride
but was banned in Ireland. In that 1762 parade, participants reveled in the freedom to speak Irish, wear green, sing Irish songs and play the pipes to Irish tunes that were meaningful to the Irish immigrants of that time.
Today, the
NYC Parade
marches up
5th Avenue
and is reviewed from the steps of
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
by His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York. Since it began, this tradition of marching past
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
has remained unchanged with the exception of the address.”