155th annual Memorial Day Parade returns to Bay Ridge to remember the fallen
On Monday, May 30, Bay Ridge was once again the home to the nation’s oldest continuously-run Memorial Day Parade.
Brooklyn’s 155th annual Memorial Day Parade started at 11 a.m. at Third Avenue and 78th Street and proceeded down Third Avenue to Marine Avenue, over to Fourth Avenue and down to John Paul Jones Park for a memorial service.
The day included bagpipes, flag-raising, wreath-laying by veterans’ service organizations, a 21-gun salute by the Veteran Corps of Artillery, and the playing of Taps.