What's Open, What's Closed on Veterans Day

Veterans Day is considered a federal, state and local holiday.

The following are CLOSED today:

• Banks—nearly all will be closed, although they may open at their discretion
• Garbage pickup—all pickups scheduled for Friday will take place Saturday
• Most libraries, including Norwalk Public Library, the South Norwalk Branch Library and East Norwalk Library (Rowayton Library is open)
• Post offices
• State offices, including the state Department of Motor Vehicles, which will be open on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
• Norwalk City Hall and city offices
• U.S. government offices

The following are OPEN today:

• Grocery stores
• New York Stock Exchange
• Norwalk city recycling pickup
• Norwalk Public Schools and All Saints Catholic School
• Norwalk Transit District will run on a regular schedule; its office is open; Norwalk-to-Stamford bus service, operated by CT Transit, also runs on a regular schedule, as does the 7 Link Norwalk-to-Danbury bus.
• Restaurants
• Rowayton Library 
• TD Bank
• Transfer Station at 61 Crescent St.—open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Yard Waste Site at 15 School St.—open from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m

Other businesses: open at the owner’s discretion.

Did you know:

• Veterans Day is not spelled with an apostrophe, as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs explains on its website, because it is a day "for veterans."
• Metro-North employs 669 veterans, about a fifth of its labor force.

Correction: Rowayton Library is open today.