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LIRR adds trains for the St. Patrick ’s Day parade

Posted on March 14, 2024 at 5:43 pm

FILE - This file photo from Saturday March 16, 2019, shows Sharon Keely, left, of Dublin, viewing the St. Patrick's Day Parade along Fifth Avenue in New York. A largely virtual St. Patrick's Day is planned for New York City on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, one year after the annual parade celebrating Irish heritage became one of the city's first coronavirus casualties. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

The LIRR will have expanded schedules on Saturday for the St. Patrick ’s Day parade, including 15 extra westbound trains to Manhattan prior to the parade. After the parade, the LIRR is adding 16 eastbound trains into the schedule.

There will be an alcohol ban in effect on the LIRR Saturday through 5:00 a.m. Monday, March 18.

https://new.mta.info/press-release/mta-best-way-nyc-st-patricks-day-parade-0