St Pats Day Parades in All 5 Boros of NYC 2025

This is a Look at All of the Upcoming St Patricks Day Parades, Including Photos of those We've Covered Over the Years with Links to a Page Containing Photos and Descriptions of Some of the Best Irish Pubs in Each Borough

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The photo at right was taken at the St Pats for All Parade in Sunnyside Queens.

The Saga of Banning Gays from St Patricks Day Parades in NYC ended this year [2025], when Staten Island finally relented and started allowing gay people to march in their parade.

The Sunnyside St Pat's For All Parade was created to allow LGBTQ folks to march in a St Patricks Day parade at a time when all of the others banned LGBTQ from marching in their parades. As of March 1, 2024 there's only one St. Patrick's Day parade that continues to discriminate against people whose gender isn't totally traditional / binary. And there seems to be a pretty large groundswell of support for ending the discrimination, as a second Staten Island St. Patrick's Day event was started last year by the LGBTQ community, which this year has morphed into a full blown parade on March 17th. Some Catholics cite the Bible as their justification for the ongoing discrimination, but it's unclear whether such an interpretation of a text that has been translated from Hebrew, to Greek, to Latin, to English would hold up under greater scrutiny. And why would a just God discriminate a member of his against his own creation?

Each Borough Has its Own Parade

Parades, Pubs and Restaurants in Each Borough. Each borough has at least one or more St. Patrick's Day parade. As we've covered most of them, we've included links to our reports of each St. Patricks Day Parade to provide you with further details of the experience of attending. We've also included links to some of the best or oldest Irish pubs and restaurants in each borough. As this is by no means a comprehensive list, and we will continue refining this report as we learn more about the Irish pubs and restaurants in each borough of NYC.

How this page is organized. We've organized this page first by borough and then by date. The parades span the month, and even though ... the official feast date for St. Patrick is March 17th, the date of the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day parade is March 16, 2024 because as a tradition they don't march on Sundays, which in the Catholic religion is the Lord's Day. The Manhattan St Patrick's Day parade is the largest in NYC.

The LGBTQ Parade Participation Issue Appears to be Abating. In 2000 the St Pats for All parade was first launched in Sunnyside, Queens to protest the banning of gays from marching in the Manhattan St Pats Day Parade. In 2014 / 2015 the Manhattan Parade opened up its participation rules to allow gays to march. In 2020 the Throgs Neck parade in the Bronx opened up its participation to gays. At present only the Staten Island parade continues to ban LGBTQ community members from participating in the parade as openly gay people. The Staten Island ban continues in 2024 by the traditional parade organizers, but they now have competition as a new LGBTQ friendly parade will be marching on March 17, 2024.

• CLICK here to view our report on the St Patricks Day Parades scheduled in all 5 Boros of NYC in 2023 including Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island.

St Pats Day Parades in All 5 Boros of NYC 2025

This is a Look at All of the Upcoming St Patricks Day Parades, Including Photos of those We've Covered Over the Years with Links to a Page Containing Photos and Descriptions of Some of the Best Irish Pubs in Each Borough

March 10, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC. Continued.

• St Patricks Day Parades in Queens NYC

Also for Queens Irish pubs and restaurants see our compendium - St Pat's Day Irish Pubs, Bars & Restaurants Queens. These will be updated next week.

• Saturday, March 1, 2025 beginning at 1 pm - The 50th Annual Queens County St. Patrick's Day Parade in the Rockaways - kicks off at Beach 130th and Newport Avenue. Church services will be held at Francis de Sales Church [129th and Newport Avenue] beginning at 9 am, followed by an invitation-only brunch at the Knights of Columbus. The parade marches east down Newport Avenue to 116th Street, where it turns right / heads south one block to Rockaway Blvd - where it turns left and continues east down Rockaway Beach Blvd to 100th Street terminating at the St. Virgilius / Camillus Parish Parking Lot. The grandstand is at 105th along Rockaway Beach Blvd. This parade is in the Rockaways neighborhood of Queens. For details see - https://queenscountyparade.org/

• Sunday, March 2, 2025 beginning at 12 noon - The 26th Annual St. Pat's for All Parade in Sunnyside - begins with speeches and music at 12 noon, and then at 1 pm kicks off from Skillman Avenue and 43rd Street in Sunnyside, Queens, marching east and uphill for 15 blocks before ending at 58th Street in Woodside. For details see - https://www.stpatsforall.org/
  • The St Pats for All Parade was founded in 2000 in response to the Manhattan St Pats Parade boycott of LGBTQ folks marching as openly gay. The Manhattan St Pats Parade has since dropped that policy and permits openly gay members of the community to march in the parade.
  • The photo at right was taken at the St Pats for All Parade in Sunnyside in 2012. This link will take you to a section of our coverage of the St Pats Parades in Queens NYC. Please be advised that as of this post [3/1/25] I've not yet finished cleaning up the linked section.

• Saturday, March 29, 2025 beginning at 1 pm - 7th Annual Bayside St. Patrick's Day Parade - marches down Bell Blvd beginning at 214th Place & 35th Avenue to 42nd Avenue. The parade is a fairly new one, now in its seventh year [2025]. For further details see FB - https://www.facebook.com/baysidestpatricksdayparade/ or WS - https://baysidesaintpatricksdayparade.org.

• St Patricks Day Parades on Staten Island NYC

• Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 11 am to 3 pm - 61st Annual Staten Island St. Pat's Parade - begins at Harts Blvd marching along Forest Avenue in the Westerleigh / Elm Park neighborhoods to Jewett Avenue, in the West New Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island. The parade congregates between 11.30 am / 12.30 pm [after a church service at Blessed Sacrament in West Brighton] and lasts between one to two hours, but the celebrating continues after the parade. This year - 2025 - members of the LGBTQ community have been invited for the first time to participate and march in the parade and they have accepted, so it's likely to be one of the biggest St Pat's Parades on Staten Island, ever. The Staten Island Parade is the last St. Pat's Parades within NYC to welcome LGBTQ marchers. The parade is organized by the Richmond County St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee and not the Ancient Order of Hiberians.

• CLOSED & JOINED FORCES WITH THE PARADE ABOVE. Sunday, March 17, 2024 the 1st Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade from 11 am to 3 pm. It is organized by the Forest Avenue BID in a response to the ongoing boycott of gay marchers by the traditional Staten Island St. Pat's Day parade organizers [see above]. Since the controversy, attendance at the traditional parade fell off significantly, which has hurt the businesses along Forest Avenue and diminished the sense of unity within the community. For details see - https://forestavenuebid.com

The photo at right was taken at the Staten Island St Pats Parade in 2018 or 2019. Click here to view our report on St Pat's Day Irish Pubs, Bars & Restaurants Staten Island NYC.

• St Patricks Day Parades in the Bronx NYC & Yonkers

Click here for St Pat's Day Irish Pubs, Bars & Restaurants Bronx NYC which we'll update next week.

• Throggs Neck _ Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 27th Annual Throggs Neck St Patricks Day Parade in the Bronx. At 9 am there's a mass at St. Benedicts at 2969 Otis Avenue, followed by a 10 am breakfast in the Father Albert Hall. At 11 am assembly begins at Lafayette and East Tremont Avenue, from where the parade steps off at 12 noon. The parade marches south on East Tremont Avenue, through the Throgs Neck commercial district, ending about a mile and a half later at Harding Avenue and East Tremont Avenue, where a mobile stage is usually set up for parade speechs and entertainment. The parade lasts about an hour, but the festivities continue after the parade. The parade is organized by the Throggs Neck Benevolent Association [aka TNBA]. For details see their blogspot page at - https://tnsaintpatricksdayparade.blogspot.com or FB - https://www.facebook.com/ThroggsNeckBenevolentAssociation/. St Pat's Day parades & celebrations in the Bronx.
  • The photo at right was taken at the Throggs Neck St Patricks Day Parade in 2018. This is a link to a previous report we did on the St Patricks Day Parade in Throgs Neck in the Bronx NYC.

• Eastchester _ Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 19th Annual Eastchester St. Patrick's Day parade. The parade kicks off at 3 pm at the Immaculate Conception School on Main Street in Eastchester north of the Bronx. It marches north onto Route 22 / White Plains Road and ends at the Lake Isle Country Club. St. Patrick's Day parades in Westchester County. For details and viewing locations suggestions see - https://www.eastchesterirish.org/st-patrick-s-day-parade/. St Pat's Day parades & celebrations near the Bronx in Westchester County.

• Yonkers / Bronx _ Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 67th Annual Yonkers St. Patrick's Parade. The parade begins at 1 pm and marches up what they call the Emerald Mile, which is along McLean Avenue aka 240th Street / Nereid Avenue. The parade begins at Bronx River Road / Webster Avenue and marches west to Coyne Park in Yonkers. The Parade Dinner Dance precedes the parade by a week on Saturday, March 8, 2025. For details see - http://www.yonkersstpatricksparade.org or FB - https://www.facebook.com/McLeanAveParade/. St Pat's Day parades in and around Yonkers near the Bronx.
  • The photo at right, was taken in early March of 2020, showing John Mulligans Fireside Pub along Katonah Avenue in the Woodlawn Heights neighborhoof of the Bronx. The blocks along Katonah Avenue south of McLean are home to a lot of Bronx Irish. See our report below for details.
  • This is a link to a report we did on some of the Irish bars and pubs in the Woodlawn neighborhood of the Bronx NYC, which is just south of McLean Avenue where the Throgs Neck St Patricks Day Parade begins.

• St Patrick's Day Parade in Manhattan NYC

Click here for Irish bars and pubs in Manhattan, see - St Pat's Day Bars, Restaurants & Irish Pubs Manhattan NYC.

• Midtown / UES _ Monday, March 17, 2025 beginning at 11 am and running until about 5 pm - The 264th St. Patrick's Day Parade. The parade begins on 5th Avenue at 44th Street marching north to 79th Street. There are generally about 150,000 participants and about two million spectators. For details see - https://www.nycstpatricksparade.org
  • The Manhattan St Pats Parade in New York City first stepped off in 1762. The parade continued through the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, WWI & WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Middle East Wars since the 1990's. In the early years beneficial societies took over organizing the event, followed by the Ancient Order of Hiberians in 1852, and in the 1990's this was followed by the transference of the parade management to local groups and organizations.
  • The parade generally adhered to 'traditional values' which meant that LGBTQ members of the community weren't allowed to march as openly gay human beings. The banning of LGBTQ participation became an issue in the late 1980's and early 1990's as AIDs 'invisibly' swept through the LGBTQ community. Some say 'invisibly' because they say the LGBTQ community members weren't given a proper amount of attention by the media and government officials, and were excluded from public events such as the St Pats Parade.
  • The LGBTQ controversy swelled up until in 2014, when then Mayor Bill de Blasio, along with many other high ranking government officials, refused to participate in the parade as long as it discriminated against gay participation. In 2014 less than a quarter million people watched the parade on TV. Subsequently the Guinness Brewing Company followed suit, withdrawing its sponsorship. By 2015 the parade committee had invited a gay group from Universal NBC, which had broadcast rights to the parade, to march in it, in a sign that things were shifting. In 2018 the parade officially opened the parade to LGBTQ marchers.
  • The photo at right shows the Manhattan St. Patricks Day Parade in 2015. In our NYC Parades section we did a short piece on the St Patricks Day Parade in Manhattan NYC.

• St Patricks Day Parades in Brooklyn NYC

Click here for St Pat's Day Irish Pubs, Bars & Restaurants Brooklyn NYC.

• Sunday, March 16, 2025 beginning at 1 pm - 50th Annual Brooklyn Saint Patrick's Parade. At 10.30 am there's a church service at Holy Name of Jesus Church at 245 Prospect Park West. The St. Patrick's Day parade assembly begins at Bartel-Pritchard Square at 14th Street [assembly stretches to 9th St] at the southwest corner of Prospect Park in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. At 1 pm there's a dedication to the 911 firefighter. At 1.30 pm the parade kicks off at Prospect Park West and 15th St and then marches to 7th Avenue. It turns right onto 7th Avenue & marches to Garfield Place, where it turns right again heading back to Prospect Park West, where it turns right again & circles back to 15th Street where there's a celebration / after party from 2 - 5 pm at Holy Name of Jesus Church at 245 Prospect Park West. For details see their Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/p/Brooklyn-St-Patricks-Parade-100067529770947/ because as of this post their website was out of date - https://brooklynstpatricksparade.org/

The photo at right was taken on St Pats Day in 2017 in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.

• Sunday, March 23, 2025 beginning at 1 pm - 30th Annual Bay Ridge Brooklyn Saint Patrick's Parade. The parade kicks off on 3rd and Marine Avenues and marches north along 3rd Avenue to 67th Street, turning west and ending in Owl's Head Park in Bayridge. The grandstand is at 77th Street. For details see - https://www.brparade.com or FB - https://www.facebook.com/brparade. St Pats Day parades in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn NYC.
• Generally there's a pre-parade fundraiser held in February. Patrick's Day parades in the Bayridge neighborhood of BK NYC.

The photo at right was taken at the 2022 St Pats Parade in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Irish Farewell Greeting

May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand. Erin go Bragh.

Have a good week.