Here in New York, it's not just Happy St. Patrick's Day or week, but a whole month of parades.

Yesterday, the Brooklyn Irish American Parade Committee led contingents of bagpipers, ste dancers, Hibernians and school children through the streets of Park Slope. Onlookers filled the curbs along Seventh Ave. on a gorgeous second day of spring. The Luck of the Irish has smiled on the parades this year with unseasonably warm days.

Among the marchers were Mary Nolan leading the members of the Commodore Barry Club of Brooklyn, which was founded in 1951. Irish human rights activist Cody McCone marched behind the Shamrocks Gaelic football club banner. The AOH gentlemen from Flatbush and young ladies from the St. Saviour H.S. Gaelic Society, who are parade regulars, strode down the avenue.

Hopefully, the Bay Ridge St. Patrick's Day Parade on Sunday, March 28, in which our friend Mary Lennon will serve as an Aide to the Grand Marshal, will be favored with the same gorgeous weather.