New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said it will be a very celebratory and very safe Thanksgiving.
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As millions of people in the USA prepare for Thanksgiving, security remains tight in NY ahead of the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade.
According to the NYPD, there was a 25 percent uptick in personnel at for year’s parade. The parade also featured many celebrity performances, including Mariah Carey, country singer Jake Owen, Virginia native Chris Daughtry and pop singers Andy Grammer and Jordin Sparks.
Officials estimate about 3 million spectators will line the streets of Manhattan to see the marching bands, musical acts and famed Rockettes. No other incidents were reported, police said.
“I had no idea”, she said.
But on Wednesday night, Seth Meyers joked that there’s a second, late-night parade put on by electronics and appliance store P.C. Richard & Son, that “celebrates the alternative and weird things about NY”. We all have Thanksgiving dinner here.The family was among tens of thousands of spectators who lined Woodward Avenue for Americas Thanksgiving Parade. “They’re doing what they do to try and create fear, to try and change us”. They’re trying to make us change our lifestyle and change our values, lose our spirit, lose our values.
Macy’s had its traditional giant balloons hovering above the parade march.
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The change was made in an attempt to lift the economy during the Great Depression, the idea being that it would give people more time to shop for Christmas.
