NYC Easter Parade 2025 is this weekend. When and where to see the colorful hats.
New York City's Easter Parade is stepping off this weekend, as a crowd wearing colorful hats will line Fifth Avenue for the procession and Bonnet Festival.
Paradegoers will don their most festive headwear and march by St. Patrick's Cathedral, an Easter Sunday tradition that dates back to the 1870s,
according to the city.
The parade steps off at 10 a.m. on Easter Sunday, which this year falls on April 20, and usually ends around 4 p.m.
It marches north on Fifth Avenue, from 49th Street to 57th.
Parade organizers say the best place to watch is from the area around St. Patrick's Cathedral between 50th and 51st, but anyone can put on a bonnet and march.
Click here
for a look at some of the colorful attire worn during the 2024 parade.
St. Patrick's Cathedral has Masses planned all day on Easter Sunday in 2025. The first starts at 7 a.m. and last at 5:30 p.m.
Tickets are required for the 10 a.m. Mass,
the Cathedral says
. The 4 p.m. service will be in Spanish.
Easter wraps up Holy Week celebrations, which started with
Palm Sunday
on April 13.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, attended
Catholic Charities annual food distribution event
in the Bronx on Holy Thursday, and on Good Friday a crowd
marched over the Brooklyn Bridge
in the Ways of the Cross procession.
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