#Newsflash | Live St. Patrick’s Day Parades Return To Queens!
BY QEDC It's In Queens
Live bagpipes, green fashion, and marching bands are back!
The St. Pat’s For All Parade, which was virtual last year, is scheduled to step off from 43rd Street and Skillman Avenue in Sunnyside on Sunday, March 6, at noon.
Poets, actors, filmmakers, storytellers, musicians, dancers, and others will follow a route to 58th Street and Woodside Avenue in Woodside.
Organizers founded this procession in 2000 when the LGBT community was prohibited from openly participating in the Manhattan parade. They bill it as “all-inclusive” and use the theme “Cherishing all the children of the nation equally,” which comes from the 1916 Easter Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
The Bayside St. Patrick’s Day Parade makes its return after a two-year Covid break on Saturday, March 26, at 1 pm.
Revelers will head down Bell Boulevard from 35th Avenue to 42nd Avenue. Rita Lydon Lenz is the grand marshal with Kevin Cadigan, Sister Kathleen Masterson, Brian McGuinness, Rory McCreesh, and A. Warren Scullin as her aides.
As always, many attendees will stay on Bell Boulevard for post-parade restaurant and bar specials.
The Queens Chamber of Commerce’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon is at Terrace on the Park in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Wednesday, March 16, from 11:30 am to 2 pm.
Attendees will eat corned beef and cabbage, listen to a live band, and network, network, network. NYPD Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell and Real Estate Board of New York President James Whelan are the honorees.
The Queens County St. Patrick’s Day Parade returns to Rockaway Beach, too, on Saturday, March 5, at 1 pm.
The route begins in the vicinity of Newport Avenue and Beach 129th Street and ends at Beach 100th Street. (There’s a Mass beforehand at St. Francis de Sales Church at 129th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard.)
The grand marshal is Transport Workers Union International President John Samuelsen, while the Honorary Grand Marshall is State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. The deputy grand marshals include Father Chris Heanue from the Irish Apostolate, Maureen Logar from the Ladies Order of Ancient Hibernians, New York State Court Officers Major Donna Ehret and Sergeant Edward Moloney, Ray Otton from St. Camillus Special Olympics, Katie McFadden from the Rockaway Times, John McGovern from the County Tyrone Pipe Band, and Russell Hauk from the Knights of Columbus.
Images: St. Pat’s For All