Macy’s decision to move its Fourth of July fireworks show off the Hudson River this year will not leave residents of northern New Jersey in the dark on that holiday, Jersey City’s mayor said on Tuesday.

The mayor, Steven Fulop, who was elected last year, has seized the chance to stage a fireworks show in Liberty State Park, with the Statue of Liberty itself as a backdrop. He even hinted that the display might be broadcast on television at the same time as NBC carries the Macy’s show.

“We’re not in the business of competing with New York City directly,” Mayor Fulop said in an interview. But, he added, “the window of opportunity opened.”

That window was opened by New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, when he persuaded Macy’s to bring its fireworks “spectacular” back to the East River in 2014, after five years on the Hudson. The announcement of that plan last month came as a disappointment to tens of thousands of New Jerseyans, who will no longer have an unobstructed view of the Macy’s show from the west bank of the river.