New York City’s 2001 decision to restrict the number of new parades on Fifth Avenue is constitutional, a unanimous federal appeals panel has ruled.

The so-called “Fifth Avenue” rule provides for the continuation of 15 annual parades commemorating national or state holidays as well as those celebrated by some of the city’s major ethnic groups (Irish, Puerto Rican, Jewish and Greek). The two most recently authorized parades were for Gay Pride Day in 1984 and the New York City Marathon in 1981.

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