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MiSmn he wis U' E83S1 II Iu eaci. tawcWj MICHAEL UPACK DALY NEWS Crowds jam seawall along East River Drive near South St. as people wait to watch flotilla of boats and fireworks celebrating Brooklyn Bridge's 100th birthday, Eq)IM MP fife mrnm A show to remember mmmmmm gently arching roadway, the Gruccis of Bellport, L.I., otherwise known as the New York Pyrotechnic Products cut loose with their grab bag of high-power air bursts. At 9:25 p.m., with Stephen "Foster's "Camptown Racers" from loudspeakers; a single, blue aerial star shot up from the river toward a full moon, followed by 9,600 indi- vidual fireworks culminating in a mind-blaster finale. The bridge towers spouted fountains of orange.

Up from the river came bursts of green and red and white that spread day across the Fulton Ferry Landing with chest-thumping concussions. The display, billed as the biggest fireworks show in the nation's history, cost the bridge Centennial Commission $180,000 and far surpassed the 500 shells of fireworks shot off for the bridge's inaugural. It was all too much for one guy who wandered off the back of a cabin cruiser idling under the bridge as he gawked at the show. Nearby police boats fished him out of the river. By THOMAS HANRAHAN and RICHARD SISK In the beginning, Grucci created a POOF! of blue, and it grew to a rainbow of and it built to a crescendo of star-spangled that roared the Great Bridge into its second century last night in a pyrotechnic spectacular seen by millions from the halls of the Battery to the shores of Red Hook.

And when was done, when the last flowering dazzle of painted fire had danced across the night sky, rising up to the remarkable bridge that forged Greater New York, came a thunderous, citywide There was nothing, not ever before and not now, like this ponderous webbed beauty hurled across the East River by the Roeblings. And there was nothing like the show put on by the Grucci family for the 100th birthday of the bridge that never had to be sold to the hearts of this city. From the tops of the and from three barges anchored in the shadow of the By SUZANNE GOLUBSKI and DON FLYNN Celebrities and VIPs with $500 tickets watched the mammoth Brooklyn Bridge birthday party from bleachers under the bridge last night, while about 100,000 others with no tickets took it all in from the Brooklyn Heights promenade. From either vantage point, it was a show worth waiting a century for. On the water, 85 assorted vessels from fireboats spouting red, white and blue water to two former presidential yachts sailed up and down the East River in a vast flotilla from about 6 p.m.

to 8 p.m. There was even a man, wearing a robin's egg blue top hat and tails, on a motorized surfboard. CROWDING THE waterfront under the Brooklyn Bridge were masses of people from everywhere, including about 150 descendants of John and See GALA Page 31 CHARLES RUPPMANN ONLY NEWS Fireworks burst above Brooklyn Bridge tower during last night's dazzling birthday DAILY NEWS () im Hrm Tor Hmt inc. The Dally Mews. New York' Picture MewtMner9, publiihed I every day by New York Newt Inc Et 42 St New York.

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