What's Open, Closed For Columbus Day 2020 In NYC

NEW YORK — New York City will recognize the federal holiday Columbus Day on Monday, Oct. 12. Government offices, schools and other services will be closed.

President Benjamin Harrison organized the first Columbus Day celebration in 1892 to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus landing in the Americas. A little over 40 years later, in 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday.

In recent years, a collection of states and cities have chosen to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, including Minnesota, Vermont, San Francisco and Cincinnati.

A recent poll from College Pulse, a data and survey analytics company, found that 79 percent of 1,500 college students polled favored replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

On average, 88 percent of the students who identified as Democrats supported the name change, and only 22 percent of Republicans polled were in favor of swapping the names.

No matter how you spend the holiday, various closures may impact your daily routine.

Here’s a look at what’s open and closed around New York City.

The annual Columbus Day Parade has been canceled this year due to the coronavirus.

Government

• City, state and federal government offices, including courts and post offices, are closed.
• New York City public schools are closed.
• Mail will not be delivered.
• Many banks will be closed. Call your local branch to check its hours.
• Libraries will be closed.

Parking

Alternate side parking rules will be suspended.

Trash pickup

• Garbage, recycling and organics collection will not occur on Monday, Oct. 12. There will also be no street cleaning.
• Residents whose usual garbage or organics pickup day is Monday should put their trash out after 4 p.m. on Columbus Day.
• If Monday is your normal recycling pickup day, put your recycling out after 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20 for pickup.