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Yesterday's big St. Patrick's Day Parade attracted tens of thousands. There were big cheers for the Fighting 69th National Guard soldiers who led the parade after serving a year in Afghanistan. First Lt. Faisal Reza, 24, of the Bronx, told the Daily News, "It felt like I finally came home. Today I felt welcomed because it seemed like all of New York came out to welcome us back."

It's St. Patrick's Day and hundreds of thousands are expected to watch today's parade in person. If you're not watching the parade from Fifth Avenue, there will be a streaming webcast on NBCNewYork.com (it also airs on WNBC 4). east village idiot noticed how the subway platform displays have been changed up from their usual yellow-and-green to a more March 17-appropriate color palette. Remember: The MTA strictly prohibits alcohol on the system and the cops will be cracking down on potential imbibing revelers at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Staten Island Ferry Terminals, Grand Central Station, Penn Station, Central Park, and any public street. And share your St. Patrick's Day photographs by emailing them to tips(at)gothamist(dot)com or tagging them "gothamist" on Flickr.

Last week's Second Annual Corned Beef Cookoff – a benefit supporting families of the Fighting 69th soldiers in Iraq – was won for the second year in a row by the Upper East Side’s Neary’s Pub. (The Irish-American dish became popular in New York around the turn of the 19th century.) Neary’s will be dishing out the corned beef tonight, as will Murphy & Gonzalez, which tied for second place with Peter McManus Café, which will be packed today, starting at 8 a.m.

We all know that on St. Patrick's Day, everybody's Irish. But this rings especially true for the kids of Keltic Dreams, an Irish dance troupe from PS 59 in the Bronx, featured in today's New York Times. When Dublin-born music teacher Caroline Duggan's mostly black and Hispanic students started asking questions about her funny accent and Riverdance poster, she started teaching them about Irish culture, and step dancing. Soon, dozens of her seven- to twelve-year old devotees were stepping sprightly in time to the Irish tunes, performing at venues around the city.