The Turkey Day party is over on Broadway.
Buildings that used to have a bird’s-eye view of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be out of luck this year, with the city moving the route below Central Park to Sixth and Seventh avenues.
“I’m really, really sad,” said Dr. Jonathan Goldenthal, 52, a dentist on Broadway at West 58th Street, who has thrown a viewing party for employees, patients and their families since 1984. “I’m surprised there isn’t more outrage.”
Goldenthal said the parties were always “very exciting,” and that he used to sleep at the office with his two sons the night before when they were younger.
“I’m really going to miss it,” said Goldenthal, who has watched the parade from the second-story office every Thanksgiving since the 1970s because his father Edgar had the practice there before him. “It’s such a shame. Especially for all the kids that come.”
Office manager Elizabeth Quinones brought her niece, 10, and nephew, 8, the last few years, and she said, “They’re so disappointed. They said, ‘We’re not going to your office this year?’ We had the greatest view, so we’re all bummed out.”
The city decided to pull the parade from Broadway for the first time in eight decades because of new pedestrian plazas and traffic changes.
“This isn’t Paris. We don’t need little tables in the street,” said Lisa Morris, who has worked on 57th Street at Broadway for 11 years and always attends an annual viewing party with dozens of other co-workers and their kids. “I am upset. The floats were so amazing; the kids loved it. The city is really killing all the fun.”
Sean-Patrick Hillman, who has watched the parade with relatives from his 16th-story office on Broadway for three years, said no one uses the plazas anyway.
“The gridlock is as bad as ever, and now no parade, which will hurt business, and it’s disappointing for the families,” he said. “It was really something to see. My little cousins are disappointed.”