May 1 used to be moving day for everyone in New York City.
The crowds at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center get crazy during the holidays.
Imagine the majority of the city's population packing the streets with beds and other personal belongings on a single day of the year.
On July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail of how “the Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.
It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”
