Downtown Brooklyn residents are bursting with excitement for their front-row seat to Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks — now that the display was moved from uptown to just off Brooklyn Bridge Park.
“I have a very small apartment but the view is fantastic. There will be about 15 people in here and then [we’ll] go up to the roof,” Tama Lipton, 79, told The Post of her Independence Day plans for her Hicks Street apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
“I’m beyond thrilled… I think this year it’s really going to be in our face.”
Macy’s will line up four barges in the East River that will gobsmack spectators from Brooklyn Heights to Carroll Gardens who are watching the fireworks from their rooftops.
Vincent Castelli, a super at One Grace Court, said the building’s management is expecting their rooftop’s hype to be so big, they’re hiring private security to keep out uninvited guests.
“People try to break in, it’s gonna’ get crazy,” Castelli told The Post of the luxury building, which is just steps from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
“Residents will give the security a list and people will give their names and he checks them off, ’cause what you’ll have is random people who try to follow that group in and say they’re also going to that unit when they don’t even know the resident.”
Brooklynite Dylan Walker, 27, plans to watch the show from the roof of his five-story Remsen Street building with his girlfriend and some pals.
“I’m psyched, because last year we couldn’t see anything from the roof. But this year we’ll be sitting up there in lawn chairs with some friends,” Walker said.
“Brooklyn is better. I’m a firm believer in that.”
Additional reporting by Gabrielle Fonrouge