New York City’s 91st annual thanksgiving parade wrapped up in heavy security
Terror attacks in cities around the world, including in New York, trigger a heavy police presence in the Thanksgiving parade in Manhattan
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City featured balloons, bands, stars and heavy security in a year marked by attacks on outdoor gathering spots.
With new faces and old favourites in the line-up, the Americana extravaganza made its way through two-and-a-half miles (3.22 kilometres) of Manhattan on a cold morning.
“The crowds are still the same, but there’s a lot more police here. That’s the age we live in,” Paul Seyforth said as he attended the parade he had watched since the 1950s.
“Not a lot’s changed – the balloons, the bands, the floats – and that’s the good thing,” said Seyforth, 76, who’d flown in from Denver to spend his 50th wedding anniversary in New York and see this year’s parade.
The televised parade was proceeding smoothly, though about midway through, a gust of wind on a largely calm day blew a candy-cane balloon into a tree branch, and it popped near the start of the route on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. No one was injured.
