In the half-hour on the Fourth of July when the electrifying palette of fireworks dances and dazzles across the night sky, Lisa Ricca said that the familiar mantra of real estate — location, location, location — applied to her apartment complex in Weehawken, N.J., and not because she is a sales agent who has brokered deals for at least 50 units there.

The courtyard of the converted steel plant was, she said, the perfect place to watch the display over the Hudson River, with the Manhattan skyline in the background.

So on Monday, when she was told the nation’s largest Fourth of July fireworks show would move to the East River this year, she had a three-word reaction. “That really stinks,” Ms. Ricca, who is also a member of Weehawken’s zoning board, said. She added: “We had a great view of the fireworks.”

The announcement came from Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Brooklynite who in his last job, as New York City’s public advocate, met with executives of Macy’s and urged them to move the store’s annual fireworks show back to the East River.