gary
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thanks to a generous lodging offer i was able to attend this event, this shot is from the night before, the balloon inflation viewing, up around 81st street and central park west, by the american museum of natural history. the balloons are inflated, then covered with large nets held down by weights, in the am they are uncovered then topped off from tractor trailers of helium, right before parade start. just be aware that this is a mass crowd event, you enter at one end and cannot get out until you have shuffled forward inches a minute all the way around a 2 block square, so it's one of those events that maybe once is enough.