November 26, 2015 By Lois Weiss The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade can be a chilly but wonderful day for families but the day before the parade is filled with its own magic. That Wednesday, Macy’s elves lay out all the balloons around the Museum of Natural History and begin adding helium at the same time the floats are lined up along Central Park West. The inflation event has become an annual "thing," especially since it gets dark after 4 p.m. As the day goes on, the floats get p

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