St Patricks Day in the City
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shadowkatTo be honest, I'd forgotten it was St. Patrick's Day until I came out of the subway at 42nd Street and marched up Fifth..and ran into all sorts of street barriers, police cars, and police vans, with their blinking lights. I thought to myself, okay, what's going on? Is it a movie? Is the President here again? Ohhhh...it's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
My walk at lunch to obtain a green juice (parsley, kale, lemon, ginger, cucumber, and green apple) was an adventure. Apparently they were lining up the Parade participants on 44th between Park and 5th Avenue. We're in between, on Madison. So, we had to convince the cops, who'd barricaded off the sidewalks on 44th street to let us by in order to purchase items from the establishments on that street.
Got a nifty picture of them lining up below:
It's a picture of the bagpipe band. They also had an accordion band. And we heard it from our offices, a block away. My cubicle mate said that it sounded a like a football game. It was loud.
We missed Jamaica, where we were away from it all...now, alas, we're in the thick of it. NYC has a million parades, and a lot of them march down 5th Avenue.
Wasn't as much an adventure getting home as we'd expected -- at this point the parade had moseyed to the North, 78th Street, where it ends. But lots of tourists in crazy green outfits, drunk, and wandering aimlessly around the sidewalks. Trains were relatively empty though -- due to the fact that most of the people who travel at 4pm are college kids, high school kids, grade school kids, their parents, and various teachers...when school is out or they've found some other activity to keep them late, the trains are relatively empty. Also, they were providing more trains...so there was that.
My walk at lunch to obtain a green juice (parsley, kale, lemon, ginger, cucumber, and green apple) was an adventure. Apparently they were lining up the Parade participants on 44th between Park and 5th Avenue. We're in between, on Madison. So, we had to convince the cops, who'd barricaded off the sidewalks on 44th street to let us by in order to purchase items from the establishments on that street.
Got a nifty picture of them lining up below:
It's a picture of the bagpipe band. They also had an accordion band. And we heard it from our offices, a block away. My cubicle mate said that it sounded a like a football game. It was loud.
We missed Jamaica, where we were away from it all...now, alas, we're in the thick of it. NYC has a million parades, and a lot of them march down 5th Avenue.
Wasn't as much an adventure getting home as we'd expected -- at this point the parade had moseyed to the North, 78th Street, where it ends. But lots of tourists in crazy green outfits, drunk, and wandering aimlessly around the sidewalks. Trains were relatively empty though -- due to the fact that most of the people who travel at 4pm are college kids, high school kids, grade school kids, their parents, and various teachers...when school is out or they've found some other activity to keep them late, the trains are relatively empty. Also, they were providing more trains...so there was that.
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Date: 2016-03-18 03:05 am (UTC)Several times in the past I was at some store on a March 17th, only to hear music outside. Everyone looks at each other and asks, "What's all that?" ... "Oh, a parade." It was always a small local thing. Fifteen minutes later and it's all over. Most places I've lived have had sizable parades some place in town at one time of the year or another. In St. Louis there was a big parade on St. Patrick's and another in the fall for the highfalutin social season with it debutante ball. Columbus had Columbus day. Over on the east side here near Phoenix there is the Fiesta Bowl Parade just before New Year's. But personally I've never been near a big parade of any kind, and can't say I missed it much.
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Date: 2016-03-18 10:45 pm (UTC)If you like parades...NYC has them. I don't think any other city anywhere can outdo NYC when it comes to parades. LOL!
Will state, because of this, they are extremely good at coordinating, policing, and cleaning up after them.
Personally? I'm not a huge fan of parades...but it's easy enough to avoid. I put my earphones on doing it yesterday.
Which I do anyway...work better if music is on in the background.
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Date: 2016-03-18 07:07 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-03-18 06:38 pm (UTC)Great photo! The parade sounds fun, though I can't imagine having to concentrate on work through the noise.