Overview

• The 49th show launched from four barges between Pier 17 and the Downtown Manhattan Heliport and projected animations onto the East and West towers of the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time.
• More than 80,000 shells reached up to 1,000 feet with effects such as crackling crown jellyfish, atomic rings and strobing lemon cascades in a 25-minute finale.
• Ariana DeBose hosted live performances by the Jonas Brothers, Eric Church, Lenny Kravitz, Ava Max, Keke Palmer and Trisha Yearwood over a musical score by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and James Poyser.
• The free public festival combined 100,000 lottery-issued tickets for Brooklyn Bridge Park and Seaport District viewing zones with open waterfront areas and boat cruises.
• The live special aired from 8 to 10 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock with a Telemundo encore while thousands of NYPD officers along with harbor and aviation units enforced street closures without incident.