Televised live on NBC-TV beginning at 8:00 pm
Broadcast live on WINS 1010
Friday, July 4, free, 9:20 pm (approx.)
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Macy’s July Fourth extravaganza is on the move again, this year heading downtown on the east side, with barges floating around the historic Brooklyn Bridge. The thirty-eighth annual event will again be hosted by Nick Cannon, with live performances by Lionel Richie, Ariana Grande, Enrique Iglesias, Miranda Lambert, and Hunter Hayes. There will also be two specially recorded songs, the Charlie Daniels Band’s “My Home” and Billy Porter singing “It’s a Patriotic Kind of Day,” in addition to a rousing version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Idina Menzel, backed by the DIVA Jazz Orchestra and Judith Clurman’s Essential Voices USA, in honor of the two-hundredth anniversary of the Francis Scott Key song that became America’s official national anthem in 1931. Among the best viewing points are along the elevated portions of the FDR Drive, with access at Montgomery & South Sts., the Brooklyn Bridge entry from St. James Pl., and Broad St. and/or Old Slip at Water St.; the ADA viewing area is at the Murray Bergtraum High School track-and-field facility. Across the river, you can watch the fireworks from Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Brooklyn Bridge Promenade; note that certain sections of Montague, Remsen, Old Fulton, Furman, and Hicks Sts. will be closed to vehicular traffic.