LiveStream Or In Person: Pearl River St. Patrick's Parade

PEARL RIVER, NY — The Rockland County Ancient Order of Hibernians St. Patrick’s Parade is Sunday, in what has been dubbed the most Irish place in New York.

Can't go? LCM Digital Media Productions will be live streaming the 2019 St. Patrick's Day Parade. So if you can't go, you can watch it! Here is a link to the Live Stream Facebook Event.

If you're going, here's what you need to know about the 57th annual:

• The National Weather Service is predicting Sunday will be sunny and mild, with a high in the mid 40s. Anyway, the parade will take place rain or shine.
• This year the Parade Commander is Corporal Megan Leavey, USMC. Grand Marshal is Joan Moore.
• Step-off is 1:30 p.m. The parade leaves from the Pfizer parking lot, turning east onto East Crooked Hill Road, then south onto North Middletown Road, west onto East Central Avenue, south onto South Main Street and ending in the area of the Pearl River Post Office.
• If you're going, remember that the Orangetown police will close the route to traffic at noon. On street parking is available in the Pearl River area, but check for any parking restrictions for that roadway prior to leaving your car. Any parked vehicles that are found to impede emergency response or endanger public safety are subject to be ticketed and towed. Handicapped parking will be available in the Parking Lot of the Key Bank at 93 N. Middletown Road and the Municipal Parking Lot at the corner of N. William St and E Washington Ave.
• Open bottles or containers in which there is an alcoholic beverage are prohibited by law.

The Rockland County Ancient Order of Hibernians ask that all participants remember the true meaning of the day: to celebrate St. Patrick and the generations of Irish Americans who have dedicated and sacrificed themselves for America and not be part of the trivialization of the holiday into the “St. Patty’s Day” image of T-shirt makers and other 21st Century “Know Nothings” whose only respect of “the green” is the “the green of the till”. Keeping the parade the joyous yet dignified and responsible celebration that the day deserves will help ensure that we can keep this great tradition alive for years to come.

SEE: Pearl River Most Irish Place in New York