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Jul/19

MACY’S FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS: LIVE FROM THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

1
Jul/19

macys 2019

Televised live on NBC-TV beginning at 8:00 pm
Broadcast live on WINS 1010
Thursday, July 4, free, 9:25 pm (approx.)
212-494-4495
www.macys.com

Macy’s July Fourth extravaganza celebrates its forty-third anniversary of lighting up the night sky on Thursday, with four barges around the Brooklyn Bridge and the Seaport District on the East River to honor America’s 243rd birthday. The festivities will be hosted by Ciara and Derek Hough, with live performances by Jennifer Hudson, Luke Bryan, Khalid, Maren Morris, Brad Paisley, and Hough and Ciara. Sixty pyrotechnicians have developed more than seventy thousand effects, including a sixteen-hundred-foot-long waterfall of fireworks between the bridge’s towers. New images to watch out for during the twenty-five-minute explosion are wolf whistle, little snakes, hidden happy faces, revolving dragons, and multicolor meteor mines. The score this year focuses on famous instrumental tunes from ten classic American movies, from Star Wars, Superman, and E.T. to Casablanca and The Wizard of Oz, in addition to “America the Beautiful” and “Stars & Stripes Forever” as part of “Macy’s Salutes Those Who Serve” and the familiar “20th Century Fox Fanfare.” Hudson will sing “Over the Rainbow” for Oz’s eightieth birthday.

The best viewing areas are at Broad St. & Water St., Pearl St. & Dover St., Robert F. Wagner Sr. & St. James Pl., Pearl St. & St. James Pl., and Montgomery St. & Cherry St., with access to the Lower Promenade at Pike Slip & Cherry St. and Market St. & Cherry St.; it is suggested that Battery Park, Battery Park City, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park, and Roosevelt Island be avoided. Large backpacks, lawn chairs, lawn blankets, large coolers, umbrellas, and alcoholic beverages are not permitted in the official viewing areas.