You will apparently no longer have to rekindle that friendship every July with those people you really don't like who live on the west side and have a rooftop view of the Hudson ...
According to The Observer, Mayor de Blasio is expected today to announce that the July 4 fireworks will return to the East River where God wanted them to be.
In his former job as public advocate, Mr. de Blasio, a Brooklynite who campaigned as a champion of the outer boroughs, called on Macy’s, the event’s sponsor, to move the show back from the Hudson River so it could be seen by residents in Queens and Brooklyn. The display was moved to the Hudson, between Manhattan and New Jersey, in 2009.
And now a look back at the July 4 fireworks from an EVG friend's roof in the East Village in 2009 ... feel free to ohh! and ahh!
Oh man, that would be fabulous! I haven't enjoyed them since they moved them to the west side!
ReplyDeleteOhh...
ReplyDeleteAnd, ahh!
ReplyDeleteThe wrongest thing about them doing the firecrackers on the Hudson was that more New Jersey people were enjoying them than New Yorkers.
ReplyDeleteEVG where the hell did you find that jukebox pic? I hope it's not from around here. Seeing that "Pitbull Party Mix" is extremely depressing. Simply put the success of the recording artist known as Pitbull is one of the clearest, ringingest indictments of society and culture today.
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ReplyDeleteIt was NOT in the East Village... I *think* it may have been Paddy Maguire's on 3rd Avenue... and yes.
@ Marty
Thank you for the ohhs and ahhs!
The return of fireworks gives another reason to stay in the East Village!
ReplyDeleteThe "Party Mix' picture gives another reason to leave the East Village!
- East Villager
Best news this year!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness, we have been asking for this for years. They cut off the East Side, Brooklyn and Queens just so that all those West side Trump buildings and New Jersey had the best views.
ReplyDeleteHere on the East Side we generally try to let everyone get a good view as long as you show up early. The West Side is where they don't even let rent stabilized tenants use the building gyms, and where one condo wanted to put in a "poor door" for all the affordable housing tenants to use, just so the condo owners would have to smell or see or get near them in the super-luxury lobby.
On the Upper West Side they probably don't even let the people who are in rent stabilized apartments up on the roof to watch the fireworks, since its the market raters who are really paying for the upkeep anyway.
Now Bloomberg and his cronies will have to park their crummy yachts in the East River like everyone else.
Thank you Mayor DeBlasio, for bringing New York's fireworks back to all New Yorkers. If the people in New Jersey want to watch something on fire they can just go down to the local chemical plant and tell the kids those red-hot burning fumes are really fireworks.
Great news! Loved it when it was on the east side.
ReplyDeleteI'm not particularly fond of fireworks. Once you've seen one you've seen them all. Now the hordes are going to descend into the neighborhood, once again. But hey, if that makes you happy, by all means enjoy. I'll be hiding out in my subterranean lair, with cotton in my ears.
ReplyDeletePS: I've become a miserly old man.
There were two things wrong with the fireworks being on the Hudson River: 1) the reasons cited above; and 2) the way they were shown on TV. The jingoism went into overdrive on the Hudson. Hopefully, that will be toned down when they return to civilization.
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