‘Parade of Ships’ will launch Fleet Week on the Hudson

HUDSON COUNTY – Fleet Week New York will run from May 23-29, and the kickoff event, the Parade of Ships will be held on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, the United States Coast Guard Silent Drill Team will perform on Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty, from 1 to 2 p.m.
Some of the best places to watch the great ships pass from Battery Park to just south of the George Washington Bridge, once the time and date of the procession have been announced, are on the New Jersey side of the river. All the locations are open to the public and accessible for free.
Try watching from the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal at Liberty State Park (1 Audrey Zapp Dr.); Exchange Place in Downtown Jersey City; the NJ Transit Terminal, Pier A Park (100 Sinatra Dr.), Pier C Parks (340 Sinatra Dr.) and Maxwell Place Park (11th Street and Sinatra Drive North) in Hoboken; and Weehawken Waterfront Park (1 Port Imperial Blvd., Weehawken).
For up-to-date information on all FWNY events, visit the official FWNY website at www.fleetweeknewyork.com, “Like” FleetWeekNewYork on Facebook, or “Follow” @FleetWeekNYC on Twitter.
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