New York
In memory of New Yorkers, the city had never known this in 258 years: Tuesday, March 17, the traditional St. Patrick's Day parade, the immutable Irish holiday celebrated in Manhattan since 1762, was canceled, as the Chinese Year of the Rat ceremonies before it in Chinatown. At the stroke of 11 am, however, at the crossing of 44th Street in Midtown, they were three fans of the green Erin, Patrick Grennan, Coleen Brady and Richard McKenna, to parade a little lonely with their binious and their American American flags crisscrossed , braving the invisible virus on Fifth Avenue. Where they should have been applauded by two million passers-by, the usual crowd, a few isolated onlookers and the horns of the few municipal buses still in operation honored their tenacity. " The Irish had to go up Fifth Avenue today, even if we were only a handful, " said one of the three thieves.
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