Pulaski Day Parade

Pulaski Day Parade NYC
Pulaski Day Parade NYC
	80th Pulaski Day Parade, October 1, 2017.
Official name	Pulaski Day Parade
Observed by	New York City
Type	Ethnic, National, Anniversary
Begins	12:30 EST
Ends	4:00 EST
Date	First Sunday in October
2020 date	October 4
2021 date	October 3
2022 date	October 2
2023 date	October 1
Related to	General Pulaski Memorial Day

The Pulaski Day Parade is a parade held annually since 1936^[1] on Fifth Avenue in New York City to commemorate Kazimierz Pulaski, a Polish hero of the American Revolutionary War. The parade runs from 35th to 54th Streets passing by St. Patrick's Cathedral. It is held on the first Sunday of October and closely coincides with the October 11th General Pulaski Memorial Day, a national observance of his death at the Siege of Savannah. The parade features Polish dancers, Polish Supplementary schools and organizations, Polish soccer teams and their mascots, Polish Scouts (ZHP), and Polish Government ambassadors and representatives.

The Parade was first held in 1937. Its founder was , president of the Downstate New York division of the Polish American Congress.^[2] There was no parade in 1942 nor 2020.^{[citation needed]}

It is one of the oldest ethnic parades in NYC.^[3]