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James Edstrom On NBC About Macy's Fireworks Abuse GOOD RIDDANCE !   We are jumping for joy here in Hunters Point South now that Macy's will not be here this year. Every year they come into our neighborhood and abuse us. They lock us up like animals, they take away our freedom while they celebrate freedom. They ignore residents e mails asking for some kind of kindness from this corporate monster. They fight with us about everything and take everything and leave us with a empty holiday. We go on TV to complain, they do nothing but pass the buck around and every year we end up locked up like caged animals in our building. They blame Homeland Security, Homeland security blames Macy's and every year it is the same, locked up like caged animals. Our pets are terrified with all the fireworks blowing up, our air is polluted and they leave a mess that we have to deal with. Macy's entertains their employees, their best customers, their buyers and we are left footing th...

**** UNWANTED MACY'S COME'S BACK TO HUNTERS POINT SOUTH Story By: James Edstrom **** Neighbors On NBC Protesting Treatment From Macy's In 2017 Sources are alleging Macy's has been banned from their 4th of July show 2018 in the Hudson River. The store announced last year that they would be rotating the event, but communities around New York City, including many tenants in Hunters Point South who have been abused by this event the past three years, say they do not want Macy's here. This story took a lot of digging as we have hosted them for 3 years straight here in Hunters Point South and many of the residents here do not want this event. Macy's was asked for comment on this story, in fact we asked two Macy's publicity persons and they ignored our requests. We also asked them in the E-Mail to have the residents be part of the conservation so we are not locked up as they do every year for this party that only benefits Macy'...

**** J.Lo’s pre-taped Fourth of July performance angers locals Story By: Ian Mohr - NEW YORK POST PAGE 6 **** Setting Up Stage For Jennifer Lopez And Macy's Pre Taped Fraud Jennifer Lopez was in Long Island City, Queens, Friday pre-taping a performance for Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks show — but some locals weren’t thrilled about Jenny on their block. Residents of a building on Borden Avenue, near the park where J.Lo and other acts perform, say the broadcast turns their block into an annual nightmare and robs them of their liberty to celebrate the Fourth. “J.Lo is pre-taping today,” groaned resident James Edstrom on Friday, adding that cars were “being towed.” “It’s not really live,” he explained, “like when they go, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, J.Lo!’ They go to a video. They have hundreds of people [at the pre-taping] going wild — everything is exactly like the Fourth of July, but nothing is real.” Also reportedly pre...

**** While Macy's Celebrates Freedom They Take It Away from Veterans And Seniors **** NBC NEW YORK ON MACY'S There is really nothing I can say about the treatment we get from Macy's having this event in our park every year. This year they really screwed us. Knowing how the last two years with us being locked up like animals for Macy's, this year I decided to be pro active. It took weeks, but I got permission from the 108th police department to have a dinner served to our veterans and seniors as well as tenants who stayed in town, in the vacant lot across the street. It was all set. LIC Landing Coffeed, the restaurant in the park agreed to give us the same food as Macy's. Urban Market was donating the paper goods and the rest, we were going to buy for the tenants. We thought to ourselves, this year we will have fun finally. How wrong we were. Macy's who was unaware that we had a vacant property across the street from our building...