 The parade remains a major annual event, typically drawing an estimated crowd of up to 10,000 marchers and 125,000 spectators gathering along South Salina Street each year on the usually cold and snowy Saturday in March.She considered her greatest legacy to be the Syracuse St. Patrick's Parade.Through the years the parade has become Central New York’s largest one-day event, “the largest St. Patrick’s Parade, per capita, in the world.” Duffy served as the parade committee's first co-president with Daniel F. Casey, and continued as a guiding force even after stepping down in 1997.