Simonette says, though she felt prepared as a balloon handler, balloon handler training doesn’t include navigating around trees and other city infrastructure For nearly a century, the streets and ...

Q: The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is right around the corner. What happens behind the scenes with the balloons? A: It takes a team of dedicated engineers and artisans, not to mention ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These New Yorkers are elated when the balloons are inflated. Hundreds of young spectators and their parents lined the Upper West ...

New York looked different at 5:30 in the morning. The sky was just starting to lift, the streets were quiet in a way the city rarely allows, and everything felt tinged with my favorite ...

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a spectacular annual event marched by thousands and watched by millions — and a massive undertaking with countless moving parts. Inevitably, mistakes happen, ...

Macy’s was not the first company to throw a Thanksgiving Day parade From turkey to football, there are some things you can always count on during a Thanksgiving celebration — including the annual Macy ...

The iconic balloons for the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade are coming to life in New York City. The annual balloon inflation celebration was held Wednesday on Manhattan's Upper West Side, ahead ...

Thirty-two "larger-than-life character" balloons and three balloonicles will float down Manhattan on Thanksgiving Day, if the weather allows, for the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. One of the ...

With the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, Nov. 27, weather experts are predicting conditions that could prevent some parade balloons from rising high up in the air in New York City.

Get ready to get festive in Fall River. One of the city’s most-anticipated yearly events, and one of the biggest events of its kind in New England, is just about ready to step off for another year of ...

Meghan Simonette, who volunteered as a balloon handler in the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, details when the arm of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid balloon hit a tree before the parade kicked off “It ...