{"id":21772,"date":"2025-06-28T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21772\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:22:14","slug":"nyc-pride-march-2025-steps-off-sunday-map-shows-when-where-it-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21772\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Pride March 2025 steps off Sunday. Map shows when &#038; where it starts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York City Pride March steps off this Sunday in Manhattan, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and the history of the gay rights movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The annual march is expected to draw more than a million people for the largest Pride event in North America. It will feature 60 floats and over 75,000 marchers.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This parade is more than just a celebration of our LGBTQ+ community, it is a symbol of our acceptance, it&#8217;s a symbol of how our diversity in this city will always be protected,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/nypd-outlines-pride-march-security-plan-for-2025-full-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mayor Eric Adams said Friday<\/a>. &#8220;We will not allow any form of hate to get in the way of that celebration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/nyc-pride-2025-theme-stonewall-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">theme honors the march&#8217;s origins<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/biden-nyc-today-stonewall-riots-national-monument-visitor-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1969 Stonewall Riots<\/a> that started it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s everything to know about the start time, route and street closures around the area.<\/p>\n<p>Where is NYC Pride 2025? See the route map<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wcbs-pride-march-still-2025-6-27.png#.png\" alt=\"NYC 2025 Pride March map \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>The 1.8 mile route travels down Fifth Avenue from 26th Street to Eighth Street, then heads west on Eighth Street to Greenwich Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It continues north on Greenwich Avenue for one block to Christopher Street, then west on Christopher Street to Seventh Avenue, where it travels north to 15th Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Stand will be located at the General William Jenkins Worth Monument, next to Madison Square Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When does NYC Pride 2025 start?<\/p>\n<p>The Pride March begins at noon on Sunday, June 29. Rain showers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">possible in the morning<\/a>, but the second half of the day should be nice with highs in the 80s.<\/p>\n<p>PrideFest, the event&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycpride.org\/event\/pridefest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">annual street fair<\/a>, also kicks off at 11 a.m. and lasts until 6 p.m. Visitors can expect to find food vendors, entertainment and activities along Fourth Avenue from 14th Street to Eighth Street\/Astor Place.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycpride.org\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong> for a full list of Pride events this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>How long does NYC Pride 2025 last?<\/p>\n<p>While there is no official end time, previous years have ranged from more than 12 hours in 2019 to over seven hours in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/nyc-pride-mach-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Last year<\/a>, organizers said it would take marchers about 60 to 90 minutes to travel from formation to dispersal. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>List of NYC Pride 2025 street closures<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD says the full route will be closed to cross-town vehicle traffic starting at 10 a.m. Sunday. Pedestrians will only be able to cross at designated locations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Street closures and detours will make it difficult to drive or to park in the area, so we strongly urge everyone to take public transportation to the event,&#8221; Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The following streets will be closed as early as 7 a.m. Sunday, at the discretion of police:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5th Avenue between 33rd Street and 25th Street<\/li>\n<li>West\/East 33rd Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue<\/li>\n<li>West\/East 32nd Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue<\/li>\n<li>West\/East 31st Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue<\/li>\n<li>West\/East 30th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue<\/li>\n<li>West\/East 29th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue<\/li>\n<li>West\/East 28th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue<\/li>\n<li>West\/East 27th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue<\/li>\n<li>West\/East 26th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue<\/li>\n<li>West 25th Street between 6th Avenue and 5th Avenue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Route:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5th Avenue between 25th Street and 8th Street<\/li>\n<li>West 8th Street between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue<\/li>\n<li>Greenwich Avenue between 6th Avenue and Christopher Street<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Street between Greenwich Avenue and 7th Avenue South<\/li>\n<li>7th Avenue between Christopher Street and 16th Street<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dispersal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7th Avenue between 15th Street and 19th Street<\/li>\n<li>16th Street between 8th Avenue and 6th Avenue<\/li>\n<li>17th Street between 9th Avenue and 6th Avenue<\/li>\n<li>18th Street between 8th Avenue and 6th Avenue<\/li>\n<li>19th Street between 9th Avenue and 6th Avenue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Miscellaneous:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Street between West Street and 7th Avenue South<\/li>\n<li>Greenwich Avenue between 6th Avenue and 8th Avenue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be additional street closures for PrideFest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4th Avenue between 13th Street and 10th Street<\/li>\n<li>13th Street between 4th Avenue and Broadway<\/li>\n<li>12th Street between 3rd Avenue and Broadway<\/li>\n<li>10th Street between 4th Avenue and Broadway<\/li>\n<li>4th Avenue between 10th Street and 9th Street<\/li>\n<li>10th &amp; 11th Street between 3rd Avenue and 4th Avenue<\/li>\n<li>9th Street between 3rd Avenue and Broadway<\/li>\n<li>Cooper Square between 3rd Avenue and 8th Street<\/li>\n<li>8th Street between 3rd Avenue and Broadway<\/li>\n<li>Astor Place between Lafayette Street and 3rd Avenue<\/li>\n<li>Lafayette Street between 9th Street \/ Wanamaker Place and Astor Place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/motorist\/wkndtraf.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong> for more on the weekend closures.<\/p>\n<p>Security for NYC Pride 2025<\/p>\n<p>Officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/nypd-outlines-pride-march-security-plan-for-2025-full-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">have announced stepped-up security citywide<\/a>, despite no known threat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 1.8-mile route will be secured with 10,000 metal barriers, sanitation trucks, NYPD vehicles &#8230; as well as personnel from our emergency service unit, mounted unit, K-9, harbor, counterterrorism teams and more. Our helicopters and our drones will be deployed,&#8221; Tisch said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/dave-carlin\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave  Carlin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/katie-houlis\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie  Houlis<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Katie Houlis is a digital producer with the CBS New York web team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Pride March steps off this Sunday in Manhattan, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5249,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,3009,9863,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-21772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-pride","17":"tag-pride-month","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}