New York to honor Veterans with Large Parade

It will be the largest parade of the nation with an estimated 400,000 spectators in attendance, 20,000 participants, marching bands and military vehicles.

The event is set to start at 10:00 a.m. with an hour-long Opening Ceremony at the Eternal Light Monument in Madison Square Park . At 11:30 a.m. the parade will begin, moving up Fifth Avenue from 26th street to 56th street.

Simultaneously, a one-time event "The Crosstown March" will depart from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the West Side Highway and march along 42nd Street, joining the main parade in progress on 5th Avenue.

Street fairs will settle on 56th Street between Madison & Sixth Avenues and 50,000 copies of a commemorative newspaper will be given out during the parade with educational and historical information.