New York City will add the festival of Diwali to the list of public school holidays in recognition of the growth of the city’s South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.
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NYC will add Diwali as a public school holiday, but there's a catch this year
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NYC makes Diwali an official school holiday, but there’s a catch this year
New York City will add the festival of Diwali to the list of public school holidays in recognition of the growth of the city’s South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.
Diwali happens October or November depending on the lunar calendar. However, it falls on Sunday Nov. 12 this year, so the 2023-2024 school calendar will not be affected by the change.
Diwali will be an official public school holiday in the coming year and elected officials and community members gathered in City Hall on Monday to mark the
Diwali is celebrated by some 600,000 New Yorkers every autumn. The five day festival — observed by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and some Buddhists — occurs on a different date every year and sy…
"Today we say to over 600,000 Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, and Jain Americans, we see you," Rajkumar said. "Today we say to families from India, Guyana, Trinidad, Nepal, and Bangladesh, we recognize you."
Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that the Hindu festival of lights, which usually falls in October or November, will now be a public school holiday in the city.
