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St. Patrick's Day brings boisterous parades and celebrations to New York and other cities
NEW YORK (AP) — St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, was marked by parades throughout the United States on Monday, from a procession through Manhattan to a rolling spectacle through Savannah's historic streets. School marching bands and traditional Irish pipe and drum ensembles ambled down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue with uniformed delegations from the police and fire departments in New York City, which hosts one of the nation's largest and oldest parades. The celebration made its way north past designer shops and St. Patrick's Cathedral, a stunning neo-Gothic landmark that's the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Mayor Eric Adams donned a green cap and scarf and waved an Irish flag while Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan greeted marchers wearing a green, white and orange sash -- the national colors of the Emerald Isle. "It's fantastic to ...
