The annual celebration of the patron saint of Ireland was not held in person last year either, as the pandemic began to shut down New York. Mayor Bill de Blasio attended the 8:30 a.m. Mass, and earlier, he attended a virtual St. Patrick's Day parade that began on Lexington Avenue near East 26th Street at 6:30 a.m. "It's beautiful," he said. "It's not what we all want. We want everyone back. We want millions of people lining the parade route, but this is still beautiful, a tradition, way over 200-year-old tradition, kept alive and we're going to make the handoff next year to the full parade ag...