Alive in CNY contributer Angela and I went down to the Inner Harbor for fireworks on Friday (along with Angela's sister). A few thousand people turned out, and I was left wanting for this place to be developed. In a hurry.

NYCO's safety concerns are things that could be addressed pretty easily, I think, so long as someone takes the time to notice them, which any private developer likely would.

The other complaints people had would be solved as part of development:

• Parking: Obviously, if you want people to come to a place often, you'll need to give them more than a few hundred parking spots spread out throughout the area. People had backed up over curbs to leave their cars somewhere, and traffic was insane getting out. Thankfully, we were able to walk down, so that wasn't an issue for us.
• Bathrooms: Again, if you develop Inner Harbor with the intention of having hundreds or thousands of people come down every day, you're not going to have eight port-a-loos for everyone to use.
• Food: People had to wait in long lines for food – this was certainly a lack of faith on the part of vendors, who must not have thought people would actually show. Now the city knows it needs to draft more vendors for events like this, and vendors will know that people come out.

The show was fantastic, and sitting across the harbor from the launch site had us sitting in falling ash, which I actually enjoy when I'm seeing fireworks.