LONG ISLAND CITY, Queens — They started picking their prime viewing spots along a pier in Long Island City right around noon time and who can blame them?
“I got my whole family together here,” Richard Renwick, fireworks watcher, told PIX11. “We had a shower, but the sun is shining now. It’s great.”
This years Fourth of July fireworks will be even bigger and better than last year, or so organizers say, with more than 50,000 to effects spread over two locations.
There will be a patriotic tone for the high-flying explosions with a score featuring the U.S. Air Force band and Gloria Estefan’s with her new original song, “America.”
The show will be fired from four barges positioned between 23rd and 37th Streets in Midtown and from one double barge below the Brooklyn Bridge.
For many here in Long Island City, this is a first time experience in a neighborhood that’s been created since the last time the barges were nearby in 2006.
“I love the fireworks and everyone being together,” Arielle,7, told PIX11.
