NYC - Macy's Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade 2007

Take a look at last year's (2005) MTA Sign
which'll give you a good idea as to how to arrive at the various points accessible to the public.
This year's MTA Sign to come soon.
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This year's
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
takes place on
Thursday, November 22nd
from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Parade Hotline: 212-494-4495

The celebration will be broadcast on NBC
(channel 4 in New York City)
9am-noon
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Also, there's the
Inflation Eve Helium Balloon Viewing
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Starting at 3:00 PM
Central Park West and Columbus Avenue on 77th and 81st Streets

You'll get to see over a dozen huge helium filled balloons floating along above the 8,000 or so marchers walking along the 2 mile route. With musical performances from stars, a broadway performance or two, plenty of clowns, floats and of course there are the marching bands from local Schools as well as from across the United States. In 2001 the Statue of Liberty Float was adorned with the flags of all 50 states. Some of the big names to star in the parade were Tony Bennett, Boyz II Men, Usher, Billy Gilman, O-Town and soprano Charlotte Church amongst others. Thus this year's event should feature plenty of big names.

So get on down along the route which goes from 77th Street and Central Park West to Herald Square at 34th Street and Broadway.

It'll begin at 9:00am. And remember, there's also the inflating of the balloons the night before at and around the American Museum of Natural History at and around 77th Street and Central Park West. Also note that the crowd gathers quite early so it might be in your best interest to show up early as well if you'd like to get a good view of the parade this year!

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Thanksgiving Day History

First celebrated by English Pilgrims in 1621 in what is now the state of Massachusetts, Thanksgiving is quite the prequel to the holiday festivities which take place here in New York City and well, across the nation. It was Governor William Bradford of New England who proclaimed a day of "thanksgiving" in celebration of the Pilgrim's first harvest in America and it was president Abraham Lincoln who later designated it as a national holiday in 1863, and president Franklin D. Roosevelt who in 1941 signed a bill that set the fourth Thursday in November as the official holiday.
BUT,
today it's thousands upon thousands who gather within NYC to view the Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. An event which began with the first Macy's Department Store Christmas Parade in 1924 followed by the Thanksgiving Day Parade the following year and many more after to this day.