“We are preparing for five million people.” Fallarino said attendance at the 2019 march is expected to soar. In many ways, the moves were made with an eye to preparing for next year’s march, when the city will simultaneously play host to WorldPride, a global gathering of the LGBTQ community, to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the uprising at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, which is considered a defining moment in the gay-rights movement. The previous route included narrower streets that “caused a choke point,” he said.Īnother key advantage to the new route, he said, is that the end point at 29th Street and Fifth Avenue is near a host of transportation options, including Penn Station. Was to speed the flow of the march by keeping it moving largely along major thoroughfares that could better accommodate the throngs of participants. The change, said Heritage of Pride spokesman
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