Memorial Day Parade Is A Go In Greenlawn; Here's What To Know

GREENLAWN, NY — The Greenlawn Memorial Day Parade is a go this year. The fire department has decided to host and partake in the parade and ceremonies based on recent guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and New York State Department of Health, it wrote on Facebook.

"We feel that our fallen service members are owed the utmost respect and our unwavering gratitude for making the supreme sacrifice in defense of our Great Nation, and that is why we choose to honor them at this time," the department posted.

The parade is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. Monday with a new, abbreviated route. The parade will leave from the back of the fire department headquarters, at 23 Boulevard Ave., before heading south on Broadway to Memorial Park. Everyone is then invited to attend a brief wreath-laying ceremony, according to the department.

There will be road closures in Greenlawn due to the parade, according to the Town of Huntington: starting on Fenwick Street at the back of the fire house, to Broadway, south to Pulaski Road, ending at Greenlawn Memorial Park. The road closures are slated to last between 9 and 10 a.m.

A Memorial Day parade is also set for Huntington.