Since it's NYC I'm not so sure - a co-worker of mine moved down to DC from there and said that they don't even have sparklers. Not that they couldn't zip over to Pennsylvania (maybe NJ, too) and get some, but if you don't grow up with a tradition of fireworks, it's not the first thing you think of when you're looking for disruption opportunities. Trashcan fire, maybe.
up into late into Giuliani’s term the city was awash with fireworks brought in from the southern states...it was a cottage industry for low level mafiosi.
Here on Long Island it still is a very noisy 4th each year with some of the hugest mortars going off on every steet corner that you can imagine.
Rudy’s insistence on cleaning up fireworks was one of the things I didn’t like him for as Mayor.
Ashcans, M-80s, blockbusters and cherry bombs have been banned nation wide for years, but they show up each year anyway.........
You can get any type of fireworks in PA, you just can’t be a resident, they have to have a permit. 7/4 at the Lake is awesome!
I grew up with those huge fires on Ave. X between West and West 1st Streets, in Brooklyn.
Sounded like a war. =)