Those eager to get an early start on St. Patrick's Day swarmed through Penn Station Thursday afternoon, creating the kind of blindly exuberant scene that Midwestern college campuses endure pretty much every weekend.

Penn Station right now must be experienced to be believed. pic.twitter.com/tDSWcAPdFu — Kate Hinds (@katehinds) March 17, 2016

If you put wraparound shades on a protein shake and took it to a Dave Matthews concert, it would still fall short of the high bar of bro-dom that overtook the station's platforms. We saw buckets of beads, fuzzy caps, and plenty of boisterous Irish pride during our visit earlier today. Hope everyone still has energy left for the LIRR Luggage Rack Luge competition tonight!



