Tomorrow Is Brooklyn-Queens Day in 2024: Here’s What’s Open and What’s Closed

Thursday, June 6, is Brooklyn-Queens Day in New York, a holiday that very few people fully understand what it commemorates.
The boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens –which with its combined of over 4.8 million people would be the second largest city in the United States –celebrate, or rather, celebrated Brooklyn-Queens Day on the first Thursday in June and, if it falls in the same week as Memorial Day, on the second Thursday of the month.  Now, the holiday is celebrated city-wide and is sometimes referred to as Anniversary Day.
Brooklyn-Queens Day traces its history back to the first ever parade of Sunday schools on June 26, 1838. It lost its religious connection in the 1860s when the New York State Legislature authorized Anniversary Day, which was a school holiday but not a bank holiday in the city of Brooklyn. In 1896, when Brooklyn was consolidated into the City of Greater New York, which also included western Queens and Staten Island, (The Bronx had become a part of the city one year earlier.)
After unification, the city’s board of education refused to recognize the holiday but it then reversed its decision in 1902, reestablishing it to commemorate the founding of the Sunday School movement in Brooklyn. Queens began to celebrate the day as a school holiday in 1911 and its name was changed to Brooklyn-Queens Day in 1959.
Here’s what you need to know about what’s open for business and operating in the United States – and what isn’t – on Monday.
GOVERNMENT OFFICES  All Federal government offices are open on Thursday, as will be almost all city and state offices.
POST OFFICE  No change to any of its services.
BANKS  Financial institutions will be open.
SCHOOLS  Public schools are closed on Thursday in New York City.
FINANCIAL MARKETS  The nation’s stock and bond markets will be open on Thursdays.
TRANSPORTATION  All local transportation systems, such as buses, subways, and commuter rail systems, will operate on a normal schedule. Airports and train stations are, of course, open.
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