NEW YORK — Spectators lined the streets of Staten Island on Sunday for the sixtieth annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
It was the primary of two parades that will likely be held within the borough this yr after years of controversy over not permitting LGBTQ teams.
As parade goers lined Forest Avenue, their smiles have been as shiny because the solar.
“It is a number of enjoyable,” Vivienne Ferrie of Rosebank instructed CBS New York’s Lori Bordonaro.
“I like once they throw the sweet,” Summer time Ferrie added.
READ MORE: Staten Island to carry St. Patrick’s Day Parade welcoming LGBTQ teams for the primary time
It was an ideal day for festive hats and sun shades.
“We have been right here with snow on the bottom. Look, that is stunning,” stated Salvatore Chinnici of North Shore.
“You would not ask for a greater day. It’s wonderful,” added Stacey Brooks of Lincoln Park, New Jersey.
Firefighters, dancers, and even some four-legged associates took half.
The parade has been plagued with controversy for the previous few years for not permitting LGBTQ teams to march.
Ok.C. Hankins organized the Rainbow Run, a Pleasure march, held earlier Sunday.
“LGBTQ individuals belong and we have received the narrative at this level,” Hankins stated.
Organizers would not handle the difficulty. One did say, “[It’s] the best parade in New York Metropolis, within the nation. It is at all times going to be that approach.”
For the primary time, a second St. Patrick’s Day parade will likely be held on Staten Island, on Forest Avenue on March 17, and can embody LGBTQ+ teams.
“It will be bringing again the St. Patrick’s Day Parade the way in which it must be,” Hankins stated.
“I do not perceive how we will separate one parade from one other. We’re all alleged to be one,” Lisa Chinnici stated.
Some revelers stated they plan to return again for the second parade. Bar proprietor Terence Haggerty stated he welcomes the group.
“We’re going to get pleasure from it, take one parade at a time,” Haggerty stated.
NEW YORK — Spectators lined the streets of Staten Island on Sunday for the sixtieth annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
It was the primary of two parades that will likely be held within the borough this yr after years of controversy over not permitting LGBTQ teams.
As parade goers lined Forest Avenue, their smiles have been as shiny because the solar.
“It is a number of enjoyable,” Vivienne Ferrie of Rosebank instructed CBS New York’s Lori Bordonaro.
“I like once they throw the sweet,” Summer time Ferrie added.
READ MORE: Staten Island to carry St. Patrick’s Day Parade welcoming LGBTQ teams for the primary time
It was an ideal day for festive hats and sun shades.
“We have been right here with snow on the bottom. Look, that is stunning,” stated Salvatore Chinnici of North Shore.
“You would not ask for a greater day. It’s wonderful,” added Stacey Brooks of Lincoln Park, New Jersey.
Firefighters, dancers, and even some four-legged associates took half.
The parade has been plagued with controversy for the previous few years for not permitting LGBTQ teams to march.
Ok.C. Hankins organized the Rainbow Run, a Pleasure march, held earlier Sunday.
“LGBTQ individuals belong and we have received the narrative at this level,” Hankins stated.
Organizers would not handle the difficulty. One did say, “[It’s] the best parade in New York Metropolis, within the nation. It is at all times going to be that approach.”
For the primary time, a second St. Patrick’s Day parade will likely be held on Staten Island, on Forest Avenue on March 17, and can embody LGBTQ+ teams.
“It will be bringing again the St. Patrick’s Day Parade the way in which it must be,” Hankins stated.
“I do not perceive how we will separate one parade from one other. We’re all alleged to be one,” Lisa Chinnici stated.
Some revelers stated they plan to return again for the second parade. Bar proprietor Terence Haggerty stated he welcomes the group.
“We’re going to get pleasure from it, take one parade at a time,” Haggerty stated.