{"id":278173,"date":"2026-06-25T19:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278173\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:33:19","slug":"fireworks-to-light-up-nyc-waterfront-thursday-at-pier-61-and-wards-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278173\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks to light up NYC waterfront Thursday at Pier 61 and Wards Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"S72IOUPNGFDFXABATQWBUWCXIU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/em\/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/em\/index.page\">New York City Emergency Management<\/a> is warning residents about two fireworks displays scheduled for Wednesday over the Hudson and East rivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EBQSD5323VC7XFY4XBRYY6X2PI\">According to the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.311.nyc.gov\/article\/?kanumber=KA-01082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/portal.311.nyc.gov\/article\/?kanumber=KA-01082\">Notify NYC alert<\/a>, the first display is set for 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night, Thursday, June 25. A separate fireworks display is also listed for Wards Island at 9:15 p.m. Thursday, with a rain date of Friday, June 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"57TDJQK3JJCR3IVMR2A7OG553Q\">The alert did not include additional details about viewing areas, closures or transit impacts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"F4OKISETKVEYLNDLAONZPMPZYQ\">The city\u2019s 311 listing identifies the Hudson River display as taking place at Pier 61 and says both waterfront shows are sponsored by Roc Nation, while the Wards Island display is tied to the 42nd anniversary of Astoria\u2019s Independence Day celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Emergency Management is warning residents about two fireworks displays scheduled for Wednesday over the Hudson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-278173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}