Macy's 4th of July Fireworks

We managed to get home from the Street Festival in the city just little bit before the sun went down and just in time to watch the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular. The Macy's fireworks is known to be the biggest 4th of July fireworks display in America. With over 120,000 fireworks lighting up the New York City skyline, shot out from 6 barges on the Hudson River, it's definitely a sight not to be missed.

This year, Macy's 33rd annual fireworks display returns to the Hudson River. It's to mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudsons historic voyage down that river. For the past few years, they have been shooting the fireworks from the East River. The move back to the Hudson is really great news for us. We could not really see the fireworks from our apartment when they shot it from the East River, cos it was on the other side of the city. Now that they have brought it back to the Hudson, we have a full unobstructed view of the whole display.

After setting our chairs up near the big window and tuning to 1010 WINS, we are ready for the show to begin. By tuning into 1010 WINS, we were able to enjoy the fireworks display with synchronized music accompaniment by The NY Pops, Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, Rob Thomas and the Choir Academy of Harlem. At approximately around 9:20pm, the show began! Here are some of the photos that we took of the fireworks display from our apartment window.

The whole display lasted for about 25 minutes, pretty amazing actually. We were however disappointed with the grand finale (or the lack of it). Overall, it was a good show but for something that is labelled the best and biggest fireworks spectacular in America, I guess the finale wasn't really that spectacular after all. But still, it was pretty cool. Thanks Macy's for the show!!

Just a little side note. One of the six barges caught on fire following the show. It took them a couple of hours to put the fire out!! Nobody was hurt and everything is fine now! :P