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Today is the 64th Annual Columbus Day Parade: According to the Columbus Citizens Foundation, the parade is on Fifth Avenue, from 47th to 79th St, between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m., with 35,000 marchers and over 100 bands, floats and contingents. Government offices and schools are closed; there's no mail delivery and sanitation pickup and recycling are suspended today, as is alternate-side-of-the-street parking. However, the stock market is open and many employers do not generally offer this as a holiday. Columbus Day was first celebrated in 1792, on the 300th anniversary of Columbus's voyage; more on the history of Columbus Day from the History Channel.
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U.S. markets are closed today.
I thought the NYSE was open today, according to this.
Yes, the stock market is open regular hours today
Does anyone who isn't a federal employee actually get Columbus Day off?
I was wondering why the City was looking dirtier than usual thismorning...
will there be a genocide and rape float?
Happy (belated) Leif Erikson Day!
What a sad excuse for a "holiday". Guess they had to throw the Italians a bone here.
There is no reason the trains should be running on a weekend schedule for this so-called "holiday".
If you want to celebrate something today it is Thanksgiving in Canada.
Otherwise it is just a day to get pissed off because you can't get mail, go to the post office or get government services. Columbus Day needs to be eliminated since nothing except some governmental functions stop. UPS and FedEx are delivering as normal since people are actually at work. The markets are open and trains are running on a normal schedule. The stupid parade just screws us all over with police overtime, sanitation overtime, and street closures on a work day. If you want to have your stupid parade have it on the weekend like everyone else!
Trains running on a weekend schedule and commuters running on a weekday schedule is ridiculous. Happy Columbus Day.
Nobody got the Columbus first voyage right. There were 4 ships not 3.
Just the Bond market is closed today.
Bah what a waste of a holiday. Just rename it Italian Heritage day and be done with it.
"They would make fine servants ... with fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."--Columbus, in his log, upon first meeting the Arawak Indians on Hispanola.
Another weird holiday. Some colleges are closed today too.
Name the day after a different explorer every year. I'm partial to Henry Hudson myself.
Such a stupid holiday...I remember my middle school teacher telling us that there was some argument among historians as to whether or not he was even Italian. And he didn't even really discover the new world first. So....why waste a holiday on this guy?
it's a floating holiday at my place only one Italian guy took the day off.
Interesting that it is considered an ITALIAN ONLY holyday here in USA...
"The anniversary of Columbus's 1492 landing in the Americas (Columbus Day) is observed throughout the Americas and in Spain on October 12"
It is considered the hollyday of hispanic heritage in HispanoAmerica and Spain.
Dia de la Hispanidad
Colombus arrived to the islands in the caribean and then mainland southamerica coming from spain on behalf of the Spanish kings, yes he was an Italian explorer freelancer or mercenary paid by the Spanish crown.
We can reduce it here to a italian thing...but in the rest of America has a way more inclusive meaning.
Genoa wasn't "italian" per se.
It is nowadays part of Italy.
Let's have a holiday for Henri Cartier, the explorer that brought serious bling to this continent.