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The
New York Memorial Day Parade takes
place from 12 to 2 p.m, marching
from Broadway and Dyckman, in
Manhattan. Memorial Day is a United
States federal holiday honors
soldiers and is observed on the last
Monday of May (May 28 in ).
Formerly known as Decoration Day, it
commemorates U.S. soldiers who died
while in the military service. First
enacted to honor Union and
Confederate soldiers following the
American Civil War, it was extended
after World War I to honor Americans
who have died in all wars.
Broadway is a wide avenue in New
York City, which runs the full
length of Manhattan and continues
into northern Westchester County. It
is the oldest north–south main
thoroughfare in the city, dating to
the first New Amsterdam settlement.
The name Broadway is the English
literal translation of the Dutch
name, Breede weg. A stretch of
Broadway is famous as the heart of
the American theater industry.
Broadway runs the length of
Manhattan Island, from Bowling Green
at the south, to Inwood at the
northern tip of the island. South of
Columbus Circle, it is a one-way
southbound street. Starting in 2009,
vehicular traffic is banned at Times
Square between 47th and 42nd
Streets, and at Herald Square
between 35th and 33rd Streets as
part of a pilot program; the
right-of-way is intact and reserved
for cyclists and pedestrians. From
the northern shore of Manhattan,
Broadway crosses Spuyten Duyvil
Creek via the Broadway Bridge and
continues through Marble Hill (a
discontinuous portion of the borough
of Manhattan) and the Bronx into
Westchester County. U.S. 9 continues
to be known as Broadway through its
junction with NY 117.
Because Broadway is a true
north–south route that parallels the
Hudson River and precedes the grid
that the Commissioners' Plan of 1811
imposed on the island, Broadway
diagonally crosses Manhattan, its
intersections with avenues marked by
"squares" (some merely triangular
slivers of open space) that have
induced some interesting
architecture, such as the Flatiron
Building.
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