{"id":478570,"date":"2025-12-29T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478570\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:53:10","slug":"philadelphia-to-debut-new-years-eve-concert-on-parkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478570\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia to debut New Year\u2019s Eve concert on Parkway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Final preparations are underway for a concert on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to welcome in the new year. The event is a new one for the city, but officials say they are ready for whatever the night may bring.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Cherelle Parker announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phila.gov\/2025-12-12-city-of-philadelphia-and-mayor-cherelle-l-parker-announce-a-free-new-years-eve-concert-and-fireworks-show-on-the-parkway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a> on Dec. 12, which will feature actor and performer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llcoolj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LL Cool J<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/ll-cool-j-cancels-philadelphia-july-fourth-concert-performance-union-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boycotted a scheduled July 4 concert<\/a> in Philadelphia due to the city workers strike. Other performers include <a href=\"https:\/\/djjazzyjeff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DJ Jazzy Jeff<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamblackstone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Blackstone<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorothyonfire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorothy<\/a> and Technician the DJ.\n<\/p>\n<p>Scott Mirkin is running the four-hour event, which will be punctuated by fireworks, and said the city is expecting a crowd of about 20,000.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been working together for a really long time to make sure this is a fun, safe and enjoyable experience, and all those things are important to us,\u201d Mirkin said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Dominick Mireles, deputy managing director for community safety, said officials will have eyes everywhere to make sure people are safe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is a multilayered approach to make sure that we\u2019ve got eyes from here to the entryway, to the way that people are coming, whether that\u2019s on SEPTA, whether that\u2019s in the parking lots and walking or whether they\u2019re coming from the neighborhoods. This is a well-covered event,\u201d Mireles said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Both the police and fire departments will have a major presence, with metal detectors screening people entering from either Pennsylvania Avenue or the Parkway gate.\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Fire Chief Brandon Wilson said they will have full staffing ready to handle any possibility.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have our technical rescue folks here. We\u2019re going to have boats. We\u2019re going to have SUVs. We are well prepared for this. None of this is new to us. We do it all the time. In fact, this is probably a little bit smaller than what we\u2019re used to on this platform out here. This is a first time for us, but it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a first-time event. We\u2019re 100% prepared,\u201d he said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":478571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,37540,216779,145751,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-478570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-benjamin-franklin-parkway","10":"tag-live-concerts","11":"tag-new-years-eve","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115805081091036814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}