{"id":54064,"date":"2025-11-27T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54064\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:55:10","slug":"macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-start-time-route-map-and-new-york-road-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54064\/","title":{"rendered":"Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade start time, route map and New York road closures"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Parade has returned for its 99th annual celebration.<\/p>\n

The tradition of the parade began in 1924.<\/p>\n

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The Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving parade is finally hereCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Last year, 31 million people watched the parade, making it the biggest audience for the Macy\u2019s thanksgiving Parade ever.<\/p>\n

With more stars and more floats than ever before, we all want to know when we can watch.<\/p>\n

What is the Thanksgiving Day schedule?<\/p>\n

The iconic parade is on November 27, 2025 at 8.30am Eastern Time.<\/p>\n

It airs in all time zones at that time.<\/p>\n

You can watch the parade on NBC or stream it on DirecTV, Peacock, Sling and Hulu.<\/p>\n

The parade is expected to last around 3 and a half hours so it should end around noon.<\/p>\n

Busta Rhymes is performing at the big paradeCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Spectators can start lining up for the parade as early as 6.00am between West 75th and 63rd streets along Central Park West.<\/p>\n

This year features thirty four balloons, 4 mini-balloons, twenty eight floats, thirty three clown groups and 11 marching bands.<\/p>\n

Scheduled performers at the parade include:<\/p>\n

Busta Rhymes<\/p>\n

Kool & the Gang<\/p>\n

Foreigner<\/p>\n

Shaggy<\/p>\n

Jewel<\/p>\n

Ciara<\/p>\n

Gavin DeGraw<\/p>\n

Colbie Caillat<\/p>\n

Olympic figure skater Ilia Malinin<\/p>\n

Paralympic sled hockey player Jack Wallace<\/p>\n

What are the New York City street closures?<\/p>\n

Wednesday 26 2.00am to Thursday 27 3.00pm<\/p>\n

72nd Street to 86th Street<\/p>\n

84th Street<\/p>\n

85th Street<\/p>\n

6th Avenue<\/p>\n

Wednesday 26 9.00pm to Thursday 27 3.00pm<\/p>\n

Central Park West 72nd St. to 59th St.<\/p>\n

Thursday 27 5.00am to 3.00pm<\/p>\n

65th Street Transverse<\/p>\n

66th Street Transverse<\/p>\n

42nd Street<\/p>\n

57th Street<\/p>\n

6th Avenue<\/p>\n

Wednesday 26 6.00am to Thursday 27 3.00pm<\/p>\n

79th Street Transverse<\/p>\n

77th Street<\/p>\n

81st Street<\/p>\n

Wednesday 26 8.00am to Thursday 27 3.00pm<\/p>\n

72nd Street to 76th Street<\/p>\n

Wednesday 26 6.00am to Thursday 27 3.00pm<\/p>\n

Wednesday 26 7.30am to Thursday 27 3.00pm<\/p>\n

Thursday 27 1.00am to 5.00pm<\/p>\n

Thursday 27 2.00am to 8.00pm<\/p>\n

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FA LA LA LA FEUD<\/p>\n

Vendors push back as holiday market roasted for $24 ‘room temp hot cocoa’<\/p>\n

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BAG A BARGAIN<\/p>\n

5 best stocking stuffers from Walmart’s Black Friday hitting stores today<\/p>\n

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Thursday 27 2.00am to 5.00pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Parade has returned for its 99th annual celebration. The tradition of the parade began in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15706,10391,27044,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-54064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-explainers","tag-inc","tag-macys","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54064","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=54064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}