Happy New Year’s Eve!
Times Square ca. 1907
New-York Historical Society
Historically
How Have New Yorkers
Celebrated New Year's
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Early in the 19th C New Year's Eve was rowdy. To bring in 1828, for example, marauders harassed revelers emerging from fancy-dress balls. From 1879, authorities had gained control of New Year's Eve celebration, now held in churches, theaters, and gymnasiums, away from drunken crowds.
In 1904, The New York Times' Adolph Ochs threw the first Times Square bash, an effort to find a spacious places for the multitudes to safely congregate.
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