visit New York for new year's eve

My uncle lives on 1600 broadway. Which is directly across from the building the ball drops on! It was the most amazing expierience of my life. Everyone should do it. I secrelty wish I wasn’t on the roof and got to watch it from the street with everyone and all the energy but it was still awesome.

had a rooftop party there which was pretty cool – full of wankers though i thought. got pretty hammered on the free booze and wandered around for ages looking for a cab to get home in. offered a guy $40 to take us back to east houston – ding ding!

Just moving to 43places.

New Year’s in New York Time Square is a hell of a time but you have to stand outside from early in the afternoon in the cold. My advice is to read up on the celebration before hand. Often people don’t realize this and I didn’t last year until I visited http://www.noo.com. It’s a very useful site if you end up going to Times Square or want to find restaurants, nightclubs, etc. to go to.

my uncle just bought an apartment smack in the middle of times square. So this goal might actually work out this year.

You have to do it once!

Just don’t sit on the ground.

And bring food….extra. We sold a muffin to some hungry guy for $20.

....ATMOSPHERE

hopefully for the next new year I’m going to be in New York City!

I had always wanted to go to New York for New Year’s Eve and see that crystal ball drop, so I decided that it couldn’t get any better than to ring in the new year 2000 at Times Square. As you may remember, it was an unusual year because there was the Y2K scare and everyone thought if I went there we would be bombed by terrorists or planes would stop mid-air or other ridiculous stuff. Well, the place was swarming with police and they blocked off all entrances to Times Square around 4pm. The crowds were unlike anything I had ever seen before. But the energy was amazing! I even got those adorable little 2000 glasses that were used in the Time Magazine cover story on New Year’s 2000 in NYC. At any rate, the point is that it is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of experience—having done it once I don’t think I would ever see the need to fight the crowds and security, etc. to do it again. But it’s a New Year’s Eve that would be nearly impossible to top. I HIGHLY recommend it.

I was amazed at how easy it was to get around even with all the people. Of course, the ones just standing their were corralled in pens by the police like livestock, but if you kept walking you didn’t have anything to worry about. Fun stuff. Experience of a life time.