Need to know what’s legal in New York when it comes to fireworks? Here’s refresher on what’s allowed as the Fourth of July 2025 approaches.
New York allows ground-based or hand-held devices that produce showers of colored sparks or a colored flame, audible crackling or whistling noises and smoke, according to the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. Collectively, the items allowed under state law are known as “sparkling devices.”
Bigger devices, like the types of fireworks that launch into the air from the ground and explode overhead, are still banned…