return2ozma@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 5 days agoNew Year's Eve bash in Times Square will feature second ball dropgothamist.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down12
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkNew Year's Eve bash in Times Square will feature second ball dropgothamist.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square9linkfedilink
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·5 days agoNew Yorker here. Do yourself a favor and do not go to that event. Before 9/11 it was cool. People wandered from bar to bar, or drank in the street, and at midnight you’d watch the ball drop. Since 9/11 there are a million cops, you are penned in with few bathrooms, and it’s a nightmare to get in or out.
minus-squareftothe3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 days agoYeah… Went once and it was definitely a “never again” type of event
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoThis is one of my favorite ‘made in NY’ movies. Got Times Square right. https://youtu.be/quW2pSOOclA
New Yorker here.
Do yourself a favor and do not go to that event.
Before 9/11 it was cool. People wandered from bar to bar, or drank in the street, and at midnight you’d watch the ball drop.
Since 9/11 there are a million cops, you are penned in with few bathrooms, and it’s a nightmare to get in or out.
Yeah… Went once and it was definitely a “never again” type of event
This is one of my favorite ‘made in NY’ movies.
Got Times Square right.
https://youtu.be/quW2pSOOclA