The cost of NYC New Year's Eve celebrations........ [Archive]

CathyA

12-31-17, 12:26pm

I'm sure this year is costing the most. All the extra police/snipers/national guard/sand trucks, etc. Is it really worth the expense? I can't even imagine wanting to be there, not to mention a 5 degree temperature. How can anyone in that mass of people even hold their bladders? :~) Last place in the U.S. I would want to be (next to Las Vegas). Seriously.......what kind of cost will this be? Seems like we require more and more and more.............

flowerseverywhere

12-31-17, 5:41pm

I was thinking the same thing. I just read in Germany they have a huge security increase this year after bands of migrants sexually assaulted women. We are staying home.

catherine

12-31-17, 5:50pm

I sure wouldn't want to be there tonight, personally, (especially tonight! Brr!!!) but I say let the young'uns have their fun. What a rush to be at Times Square on New Year's Eve!! (But DH and I also always wonder the same thing about how you manage to stand there for hours without a bathroom.)

Our son is down from VT and so we're going to a quiet BYOB Japanese restaurant. If he weren't here, we'd probably just go to bed. That's how old we're getting!

And BTW, what a beautiful moon tonight! Happy New Year's everyone!

Ultralight

12-31-17, 5:51pm

In Argentina earlier this month during my trip I took a tour and the guide was a 21 year old Argentine. He told me that his big dream is to go to NYC someday for the NYE countdown.

Ultralight

12-31-17, 5:58pm

My plans for the evening are to go to a potluck at the UU. They have a subgroup called ASH (Atheists, Skeptics, and Humanists). The UU-ASH usually has a discussion group but tonight they are doing something I find quite clever.

They are having a potluck from 7pm to 9pm. The idea is that you can do a low-key pre-party there and then move on to your big, wild party later.

Or like me, you can just go home and avoid most of the drunkards out on the road.

herbgeek

12-31-17, 6:08pm

In Argentina earlier this month during my trip I took a tour and the guide was a 21 year old Argentine. He told me that his big dream is to go to NYC someday for the NYE countdown.

This would actually be my nightmare. I was at Times Square a couple of years ago the day after Christmas. It was MOBBED. I could not even imagine when everyone came out to celebrate.

bae

12-31-17, 6:09pm

Is it really worth the expense?

Seems the people of NYC think so, since they keep electing leaders who support the event.

My NYE's plan is to pull a duty shift, so that someone else can be with their family. I'm hoping I won't have to deal with any drunk-driving crashes tonight.

CathyA

12-31-17, 9:22pm

Seems the people of NYC think so, since they keep electing leaders who support the event.

My NYE's plan is to pull a duty shift, so that someone else can be with their family. I'm hoping I won't have to deal with any drunk-driving crashes tonight.

That's nice of you bae. I hope you have a totally uneventful shift!

bae

12-31-17, 9:28pm

That's nice of you bae. I hope you have a totally uneventful shift!

So far so good. One call for a slip-and-fall in a tub, marijuana-related, but at least they weren't driving!

Tradd

12-31-17, 9:43pm

I'm spending the evening at home with BBC Radio online or the local radio station I like that does a nice NYE show. Probably do some reading. Already heard London ring in the New Year with Big Ben. I'll probably be asleep before midnight local time. I'm planning on being in the pool at 8 am for my laps, and at a friend's open house later in the day.

Ultralight

12-31-17, 11:11pm

Gotta appreciate the baes out there! Happy New Year!

Ultralight

12-31-17, 11:12pm

jp1

1-1-18, 2:31pm

I did Times Square one time when I first moved there. It was worth doing once. I'd never do it again though. Like Cathy mentioned, there's no restrooms. And you can't go anywhere for hours. And the year I went it wasn't even that cold. I can only imagine what it was like last night.

Tammy

1-1-18, 3:23pm

It sounds totally miserable to me. It would be a way for someone to punish me. Make me go there instead of to jail for a night.

bae

1-1-18, 3:23pm

Rest of the evening's tally:

One car crash, alcohol-involved, airlift required.

One little old lady at home with a walker-related trip-and-fall, fixed walker and made her tea.

catherine

1-1-18, 3:35pm

We wound up going to a fairly new great farm-to-table restaurant in Princeton. Sat at the bar to eat (hard to get reservations last minute) and chatted up a few really nice folks. Dinner was excellent.

Then home to watch a painful hour of Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. Never thought I'd want to see Kathy Griffin, but I was bored beyond tears but vigilant about falling asleep, waiting for the ball to drop. Danced with DH to Imagine, called the kids/they called us. Nice evening. But if DS wasn't there, I would have dreamed my way through the ball drop.

Teacher Terry

1-1-18, 4:11pm

WE usually invite 2 couples over for dinner and cards. But this year we are getting ready to go out of town for my DIL's surgery.

CathyA

1-1-18, 4:19pm

WE usually invite 2 couples over for dinner and cards. But this year we are getting ready to go out of town for my DIL's surgery.
I hope all goes well with her surgery and your trip there.

CathyA

1-1-18, 4:21pm

Rest of the evening's tally:

One car crash, alcohol-involved, airlift required.

One little old lady at home with a walker-related trip-and-fall, fixed walker and made her tea.

Hope #1 is okay and learned his/her lesson
#2.....awww.....so sweet of you to fix her walker and make her tea! I'm sure she really appreciated that!

bae

1-1-18, 6:38pm

Hope #1 is okay and learned his/her lesson

I suspect they will, once the Sheriff and Prosecutor are done with them :-(