Televised live on NBC-TV beginning at 8:00 pm
Broadcast live on WINS 1010
Monday, July 4, free, 9:20 pm (approx.)
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Macy’s July Fourth extravaganza celebrates its fortieth anniversary of lighting up the night sky on Monday, with four barges between Twenty-Third and Thirty-Seventh Sts. on the East River and a bonus double barge just south of the Brooklyn Bridge setting off more than fifty-six thousand effects. The festivities will be hosted by Tamron Hall and Willie Geist, with live performances by Kenny Chesney, Meghan Trainor, 5 Seconds of Summer, Pitbull, and DNCE. The score to the twenty-five-minute fireworks display will include “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “The Stars & Stripes Forever,” “This Land Is Your Land,” “Shenandoah,” “This Is My Country,” “The Armed Services Medley,” “Where Eagles Fly,” and “God Bless America,” with a grand finale of “America the Beautiful” sung by Jennifer Holliday and the USAF Singing Sergeants. You should also listen for the thirteen chimes in honor of the thirteen original colonies and watch for the new pyro-writing in the sky. Among the best viewing points are along the elevated portions of the FDR Drive, with access at Houston, Twenty-Third, Thirty-Fourth, and Forty-Second Stss. in Midtown and Broad St., Old Slip, and Pearl and Frankfort Sts. downtown by the Seaport. You should avoid Battery Park, Battery Park City, Roosevelt Island, and Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park.