The city is celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a parade that draws more than 1 million spectators and thousands of participants along Fifth Avenue.
The parade is streaming live here from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
It begins at 44th Street and makes its way north up Fifth Avenue past St. Patrick's Cathedral to 79th Street, amid frigid temperatures.
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This year's Grand Marshal is Jack Ahearn, the business manager of Local 30 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.
"I'd like to think it's a celebration of roots and family and friendship and faith and heritage and culture and song and music," Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said outside St. Patrick's Cathedral as the parade kicked off. "I'd like to think it's a celebration of New York, this tremendous tapestry and this diversity all rallying around."
New York's Irish, their descendants and the Irish for a day are reveling in the celebration of Irish culture, but Mayor de Blasio is skipping the parade, which does not allow expressions of gay identity.
Parade organizers have said gay groups are not prohibited from marching, but are not allowed to carry gay-friendly signs or identify themselves as LGBT.
After protesters had planned to dump Guinness beer from the shelves of the Stonewall Inn, the beermaker said in a statement Sunday it had dropped its sponsorship of the parade.
Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny is refusing to be sidelined, however, saying the holiday is about Irishness, not sexuality.
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