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Today is Columbus Day, and since it's a federal, state and local holiday, there are many closings. Public schools and public offices are closed. There is no mail delivery, but the James Farley Post Office at Eighth Avenue and West 33rd Street is open. There's no garbage or recycling pick up or street cleaning. Things that are open: The stock market and many offices (based on the grumblings we've heard).
The Parade will start at noon on Fifth Avenue at 44th Street, walking up Fifth to 79th Street. And the debate of whether Columbus is worthy of a holiday and parade continues, but what we're just glad subways and buses are running on a weekday schedule.
The Parks Department has different activities for children on Columbus Day. And the Christopher Columbus statue in front of the NY State Court Building was actually left in storage from 1869 till 1934 when it was found in a Central Park maintenance shed.
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It’s more of an Italian American holiday then it is about Columbus, but I don’t think they're going to change the name anytime soon
Even though they really should.
i fully agree because--why is this man being celebrated? he didn't "discover" sh*t!
Heh, and Columbus wasn't even Italian.
But there is totally street cleaning today...I got sprayed by a street cleaner on my way to the office.
i guess the only way to really celebrate today a la Cristobal Colon would be to get a hooker, practice BDSM (=torture the natives) without protection (=spread disease) refuse to pay when it is all over (=steal the riches) and then claim that while not only being the first peson to get a hoooker, that you're the supreme pimp (=discoverer / owner of all). see you at the parade...with chains on.
Damn useless non-holiday. Most people do not have off, so of course transportation will run normallyy. I want mail and this lame ass holiday is pissing me off.
Now if we were doing all this because it is Thanksgiving (Canadian style) I would have llless of an objection. Still I want mail.
Allow me to repeat myself:
As a man of Spanish-Italian heritage, I ve alwayd wondered why Italians in the US celebrate their heritage on Columbus day.
He was born at a time when Italy was split mostly in parts ruled by France, The Pope and Spain; it was not a real country. Columbus was willing to sell his services and loyalties to the highest bidder, either Portugal or Spain. Once the Spanish King and Queen agreed he settled there, he married there, he had his children there and he died there. Everything he discovered he did for the greater glory and richness of Spain. To this day, his heirs have the right to a Spanish title and, invariably, one of them ends up an admiral in the Spanish navy. Why is Columbus praised as a great Italian again?
BTW, why are those who liken Columbus to Hitler (Godwin already?) living in this continent? Do they really believe that the Arabs on the other side of the Pacific were not going to do to the Aztecs and others what they did to the Persians? More likely still, since the Arabs had such a lucrative trade on African slaves they would have just expanded the new world into their business sphere.
Anachronistic guilt for behavior that was completely normal in those days is stupid. The Aztecs records themselves show that that their priests once sacrificed 40,000 prisoners in a couple weeks, and that was way before there were any Spaniards nearby.