New parade route for the 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 26, 2009

November 8, 8:44 PMLong Island Travel ExaminerDebora Toth

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The Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade will not travel on Broadway this year but will take a new route.
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Don't wait along Broadway for this year's 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. The 83rd edition of the Macy's Parade will mark a milestone moment in Parade history. Having marched down parts of Broadway for 82 years, the 2009 procession will be the first to bypass Broadway in the long running march.
 

Over the years the Macy's Parade route has changed five times traveling through several different paths, from having initially stepped off in Harlem to its current 77th Street launch, the route has changed with the times.

The 2009 Macy's Parade will begin at 77th Street and Central Park West, travel down to Columbus Circle where it will turn onto Central Park South. Once the Parade reaches 7th Avenue it will turn once more and march down 7th Avenue through Times Square to 42nd Street. At the famed intersection it will turn east to 6th Avenue and begin its final march down the Avenue of the Americas to 34th Street where it will turn towards Macy's famed flagship and end at 7th Avenue marking a 2.65-mile march.

Public information on the 83rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is available by logging on to www.macysparade.com or calling the Macy's Parade Hotline at (212) 494-4495.