NYC’s Patricks Day Parade Features Author Clark
May 20, 2011 | Entertainment, Home
New York Cities Fifth Avenue turned green on Thursday with the biggest St. Patrick’s Day parade in America marking the 250th parade in New York.
The festivities started at 11 am on Fifth at 44th street led by best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark as the grand marshall.
Up to 2 million spectators will witness about 200,000 marchers on a sunny March day with temperatures in the mid 60′s. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg marched with Clark, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and other city officials. Roman Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan and his predecessor Cardinal Edward Egan greeted the mayor in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral at 50th Street.
Earlier this month, Bloomberg got a less than warm welcome at a St. Patricks’ Day parade in Queens. Some parade-goers were angry about the mayor’s joke last month that he usually saw “people that are totally inebriated” at the American Irish Historical Society in Manhattan. Bloomberg apologized shortly after making the comment.
Asked about the matter again before Thursday’s parade, Bloomberg said, “I told a joke some people didn’t find funny. But the reception I got so far puts a smile on my face.”
Dolan waved off a question about whether the mayor’s joke had offended him.
This article was written by: Maria Capp
