Jersey City Planning Hudson River Fireworks On July 4th

“When New York City decided to move it to the East River, it opened up a window of opportunity,” Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop told WCBS 880’s Levon Putney. “Our job is to capitalize on that and that’s what we’re doing.”

The mayor said the fireworks display will be the largest in New Jersey and he expects more than 100,000 people to be in attendance.

“We’re reinstituting it and we’re doing it in style and we’re doing it big,” Fulop said. “This will be a far larger show than what we used to do.”

The event won’t cost taxpayers a dime thanks to the corporate sponsors, Putney reported.

Over the past 50 years, Macy’s has launched fireworks from the Hudson River 25 times and this year will mark the 25th time the show will be held over the East River, organizers said.

Macy’s plans to continue alternating rivers in the future, organizers said.

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