Hundreds of thousands attended the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin last year. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty ImagesOrganizers of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day parade have cancelled the event is cancelled due to the global spread of the coronavirus. New York’s parade hosts 2 million people, larger than any other cancelled event tracked by Forbes. Boston, over a fifth of whose residents are Irish, hosted last year a reported 1 million merrymakers at its parade. Along with the New York Auto Show, Boston’s parafde is tied for the third-largest cancelled event Forbes has tracked (only behind the Houston Rodeo) and is approximately twice the size of the parade in Dublin, Ireland’s capital.

Source: Forbes March 11, 2020 17:39 UTC