NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio doubled down Wednesday that the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks will indeed take place, but don't count on the annual event to be the same as it's been past years.
"We're going ahead with a celebration for the Fourth of July; it will involve fireworks, it will involve Macy's and that's all we know," de Blasio said. "We are not going to let our nation's birthday go unrecognized. But what ever we do is about going to be about safety first."
He cautioned, though, "It may be bigger, it may be smaller. But we will have a lot more to say as we get closer. Do not assume it will look like what we've done in the past ... it might look very, very different."
As for the TCS Marathon, de Blasio said the Nov. 1 event is a bit of a ways off, but his administration is having conversations with its organizers, The Road Runners Club.
"We work very closely with the Road Runners club, they've been amazing throughout this crisis," he said. "The marathon itsself is obviously a ways off, so we're talking to them, but it's too early to come up with any conclusions. But they are right at the table with us as we consider what to do."
He added that figuring out the logistics of big events is not a top priority right now. "The really big events are the last piece of the puzzle," he said. "We really need to think hard about any large gathering."
