When i was younger i was sure to never miss the fireworks in our city. We have a park called Morgans Park(JP Morgan Banking; his estate when he was alive), and it's about 50 acres or so of land where one can go walking and biking and skating, and all the way at the bottom, since the entrance is on a hill, there is the beach. Even though fireworks are banned in New York State, all the cities, towns and golf courses usually get permission to fire them off. What makes our location so cool though, is that there is land about 5-10 miles away from the beach that is another town, so we have our fireworks show, and then they have their fireworks show. They used to do them both at once, but our former mayor was really cheap and minimized the shows time from like 40 minutes to 22 =[. I didn't go this year, but it was just a lousy day and i was almost certain it was going to rain. Didn't work out half bad though, since there's a golf course about 2 minutes from my house and i got to watch that from my bedroom window. Still relly enjoy the fireworks though.