Madeline Bartos | Staff Writer 09/06/2018 Pittsburgh has been marching to the beat of its own Labor Day Parade drum for over a century. The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, and it didn’t take long for the festivities to catch on in Pittsburgh. For the past 37 years, Pittsburgh has been hosting the largest participating Labor … Continue reading Pittsburgh holds onto its Labor Day Parade history