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Article: NYC fireworks highlight US Independence Day events
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- July 5, 2009
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Fireworks burst into the night sky above New York with a kaleidoscope of colors shooting 1,000 feet (300 meters) into the air on an Independence Day that began with the Statue of Liberty's crown opening to the public for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001.
It was American's biggest fireworks display, with more than 22 tons of pyrotechnics exploding Saturday over the Hudson River, a new vantage point for New York's festivities. Millions of spectators watched from both sides of the river.
Among them were Gamalat Bayoumy and his wife, Mosad Mohamad _ food cart vendors who work near the river and ended up watching the fireworks sitting on a crate and a broken chair in the doorway ...