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New Year's Eve in Times Square: Have you always wanted to go? [1]

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Date: 2022-12-31

I’ve been living in New York City since the end of the last century. Times Square is just a subway ride away. Yet even before I had kids, I never went. I definitely thought about it, but I never did it. And COVID-19 certainly changed the equation, at least for the past couple of years, and maybe longer.

I won’t say I never will go, but I have a feeling the chances of me going in the future have, shall we say, dwindled. Let’s get real. I haven’t even made it to midnight with my eyes open the last number of years. The party we usually go to (hopefully the invite is on its way) winds down not too far beyond the other side of 10 PM. I’m certain that my kids are far more likely than I am to be the next members of our family to make it to midnight.

This year, again, I’ll just have to live with seeing the spectacle virtually. How about all of you? Have you ever done New Year’s Eve in Times Square? Have you ever wanted to? Does it sound like the worst possible idea in the world? Or just maybe the best? Come on in and share your thoughts, and let’s celebrate together. Happy New Year!

And in that spirit, here are some great photos to enjoy from what I hope, for all of you, is a warm, comfortable spot.

Ian Reifowitz is the author of The Tribalization of Politics: How Rush Limbaugh's Race-Baiting Rhetoric on the Obama Presidency Paved the Way for Trump (Foreword by Markos Moulitsas

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