For most New Yorkers, Thanksgiving is a day of celebration, a day to spend time with family — and, perhaps most importantly — a day off of work.

For others, however, this is the busiest day of their year — when rest isn’t even close to being part of the equation.

As you tuck into your annual turkey, take some time to appreciate a trio of tireless Big Apple heroes, who inhabit three very different worlds within New York — each of them hitting the ground running over the holiday, keeping the city warm, fed and full of holiday cheer.

Yes to the dress

As costume director for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Kimberly Montgomery’s morning on the fourth Thursday in November starts hours ahead of almost everyone else’s.

She wakes up at 2.30 a.m., already riding a wave of adrenaline as she

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