Balloons within the form of beloved characters like Snoopy and SpongeBob SquarePants soared by the skies above New York Metropolis on Thursday, and bands marched alongside the streets under, because the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ushered within the vacation season.
The parade began on Manhattan’s Higher West Facet, making its method alongside Central Park in entrance of huge crowds and a nationwide tv viewers, earlier than ending in entrance of Macy’s flagship retailer on thirty fourth Road.
Among the many massive names performing was Cher, who simply launched her first Christmas album.
The parade was briefly disrupted when a couple of half-dozen protesters in jumpsuits coated in pretend blood glued themselves to the road simply in entrance of a float carrying characters from the quick meals large McDonald’s. They carried a banner that mentioned “Free Palestine” and “Genocide then. Genocide now” and had been taken into custody.
The parade included greater than two dozen floats, interspersed with marching bands from across the nation and various clown crews, among the many 8,000 folks collaborating, organisers mentioned.
