Fireworks Near Me: Long Beach July 4th 2024 Events

LONG BEACH, NY — Independence Day is fast approaching so it's time to find out where you can celebrate in and around Long Beach. Area events include fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun.

To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going on in Long Beach and the surrounding areas.

July 4 Festivities For 2024

What: Extravaganza by the Sea
Where: Town Park Point Lookout
When: Saturday, June 29

Starship will perform and a hot dog eating contest will be part of the events. The noon-9 p.m. event is free. A donation of canned or dried foods is being accepted for armed service veterans.

What: Jones Beach Fireworks Spectacular
Where: jones Beach Central Mall
When:July 4th at 9:30 p.m.
The event has a $10 parking fee.

What: Rockville Centre fireworks
Where: Barasch Field
When: Saturday, July 13 from 7-9:30 p.m.

What: Salute to America concert
Where: Tobay Beach, Massapequa
When: July 9 (Rain date: July 10)
Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats will perform.

Today, Americans celebrate the birth of a new nation with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn’t happen until 1941.

During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III’s birthday were replaced with mock funerals as a symbolic break from the crown.
It was an exciting time in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress voted to break from the crown and, two days later on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies —New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia — to adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The first annual commemoration of the nation’s independence was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.