Shamrocks will abound as Brooklyn’s two great St. Patrick’s Day parades return to paint the borough green once again. Whether you’re fresh off the boat, a proud descendant, or just there for the fun of it, one thing’s for sure: everybody’s Irish when he’s eating one of Marty Markowitz’s green bagels on St. Patrick’s Day!
Park Slope’s 34th annual Paddy parade is on Sunday, March 15. Festivities begin at around 11 am, when bands and river dancers start gathering near the corner of Prospect Park West and 14th Street.
Of course, Borough President Markowitz will be there, handing out treats and speaking in an odd Jewish-Irish brogue.
The parade kicks off at 1 pm, heading from Bartel Pritchard Square to 15th Street, where it will turn onto Seventh Avenue. At Union Street, the marchers head back to Prospect Park West.
Brooklyn’s other great green parade will take place on Sunday, March 22, and will gather at noon in front of St. Patrick’s Church on the corner of 95th Street and Fourth Avenue. The parade will snake its way up Fourth Avenue to Fifth Avenue, then down 59th Street, ending at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, on the corner of 59th Street and Sixth Avenue. For a great place to watch the procession, go to the grandstand on 75th Street and Fifth Avenue.
