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The Fourth of July in New York — New York

The Love New York Guide â„– 002: The Fourth of July in New York

Childe Hassam via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) The reading of the Declaration of Independence that New York celebrates each Fourth of July has a local backstory: when a copy reached the city on July 9, 1776, and was read aloud to General Washington’s troops on the Common near today’s City Hall, a crowd surged down …

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