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Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks

New York, NY · Holiday

When

July 4, 2027

Where

East River · New York · NY

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The nation's largest Independence Day fireworks show, launched from barges on the East and Hudson Rivers and the Brooklyn Bridge. Macy's has sponsored it since 1976. It is held every July 4, a fixed date each year.

The history within reach

• Brooklyn Bridge openssame spot

  The Roeblings' fourteen-year project opened May 24, 1883, the longest suspension span in the world by half again..

• Macy's Fourth of July Fireworkssame spot

  The nation's largest Independence Day fireworks show, launched from barges on the East and Hudson Rivers and the Brooklyn Bridge.

• Bargemusic, the concert hall on a coffee barge0.2 mi

  Olga Bloom was 57 and done with a career in opera house and Broadway pits when she bought an 1899 coffee barge and set about making it a concert hall.

• The Fulton Ferry makes Brooklyn America's first commuter suburb0.3 mi

  Robert Fulton and William Cutting leased this East River crossing in January 1814 and put the steamboat Nassau on it that May, the first steam ferry service on the river.

• Empire Stores, the coffee warehouses of the Brooklyn waterfront0.3 mi

  Seven joined warehouses of brick and stacked schist went up on this waterfront between 1869 and 1885 to hold green coffee coming off the ships.