The streets of South Boston ran green with Irish pride Sunday morning, as revelers poured out for the earlier, stricter edition of Southies annual St. Patrick’s/Evacuation Day Parade. “This is Boston’s finest,

New York City’s 264th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade kicked off at 11 a.m. on 43rd Street. It’s estimated 2 million spectators and 150,000 marchers – including the mayor and governor of New York – line 5th Avenue for the event.

Billed as the “world’s shortest St. Patrick’s Day parade,” dancers, fiddle players, dogs and others donning green made their way down Conklin’s Main Street, starting at the intersection of Main Street and Miller Street and ending at the Conklin Bar.