Community Corner
What's Open, What's Closed on Labor Day 2013
Labor Day is held on the first Monday in September each year.
Unofficially the last day of summer, the holiday, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, "constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country."
On Friday the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles will close at 12:30 p.m. and not reopen until 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3.
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Here's the list of what is open and closed on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2:
OPEN
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- Restaurants, generally, unless they're normally closed on Mondays
- Grocery stores
- Other businesses: open at the owner’s discretion.
- Call ahead before heading to any of the above establishments to confirm they are open. Many retail stores or gyms/health clubs may be operating on a Sunday schedule or with limited hours.
CLOSED
- Norwalk Public Schools
- Banks have the option of remaining open in Connecticut, but hardly any do, and even TDBanks are closed.
- Norwalk Library, Rowayton Library and other libraries
- Financial markets, such as the New York Stock Exchange
- Post offices
- Norwalk city offices and agencies
- Norwalk municipal trash and recyclables collection: "There will be no collection of municipal garbage or recycling on Labor Day – Monday Sept. 2, 2013. If your normal pick up day is on or after the holiday, your pick up will be one day later. For example: Monday pick up will be on Tuesday, Tuesday pick up will be on Wednesday, Wednesday pick up will be on Thursday, Thursday pick up will be on Friday and Friday pick up will be on Saturday."
- State offices, including the state Department of Motor Vehicles (which "will will close Friday, Aug. 30, at 12:30 p.m. and will reopen Tuesday, Sept. 3, at 7:45 a.m.").
- U.S. government offices.
- Norwalk Transit bus service (but see below)
- Metro-North Railroad's Grand Central north entrances will be closed.
- Costco
- YWCA of Darien/Norwalk
- Norwalk Transit District buses (but not the Stamford-Norwalk bus along the Post Road in Darien -- that's operated by CT Transit and runs on a Sunday schedule on Labor Day).
DIFFERENT
- CT TRANSIT (which operates the Norwalk-Stamford route) will operate on a Sunday schedule.
- On Monday, Metro-North will operate on a Sunday schedule. "MTA Metro-North Railroad will provide 22 extra getaway trains on Friday, Aug. 30, for people who want to leave work early to celebrate the long Labor Day weekend. Because so many people leave work early on Friday, six PM peak trains will be combined into three and 13 late PM peak trains will be cancelled. On Saturday, August 31, and Sunday, Sept. 1, trains will operate on a regular weekend schedule." -- from an announcement on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority website. For more details on the extra Friday trains, see this Web page.
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