How is the New Year celebrated in New York?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

New York is truly a magical city that turns into a fairy tale for the New Year and Christmas. This beauty, charm and fantasy can only be compared with winter Prague and the Alps. And it is not surprising why many people leave their gray and dull city, spend huge sums and time to drink under the chiming clock in the American metropolis. In this article, we will tell you how New Year is celebrated in New York.

Dive into the magical world

Over the months, the city turns into a real fairy tale, because every house and shop is comfortably ennobled, decorated with multi-colored garlands, sparkling serpentine and announcing holiday promotions. It is here that you can feel the atmosphere of celebration that each of us has from early childhood. This huge city literally changes clothes a few months before the holidays, people buy food and come up with a universal menu. And it is unlikely that on the table of the average New Yorker you can find "Herring underfur coat" or our, Soviet, "Winter salad".

To learn how New York celebrates New Year and Christmas, we will get to know local traditions, dishes and main streets that will surprise you with their variety of lights and fancy costumes.

An event of amazing scale

If you are used to going out into the yard after the chiming clock and shooting fireworks for hours, having time to drink with all the neighbors from the yard, then you will like this celebration. New Year's Eve in New York can be celebrated at Times Square - the largest square in the city, full of lights and huge advertising banners.

What is the celebration on this street? A concert and festival of enormous proportions, an unimaginable number of people dressed in colorful costumes and absolutely happy, who arrived from different parts of the world. Congratulations that like thunder rumble over their heads. And at the end, you will have a great fireworks display and dancing until the morning in the rain of confetti!

And if you don't want to freeze, stock up on warm blankets. After all, no matter what frost you are used to, you will have to stand for 6-8 hours on the street, periodically warming yourself with warm tea (or something stronger). According to statistics, more than a million people gather in Times Square. You will definitely not forget such a New Year in New York!

Salute, fireworks

Appreciate the beautiful view and good company? Then feel free to go celebrate the New Year in New York, but not in an ordinary apartment, but in the Grand Army Plaza!

There won't be thousands of people here,like in Times Square, but it is in this square that you can enjoy large-scale fireworks, which is observed in all its glory. The main feature is that such events are absolutely free. The only thing is, if you do not want to freeze and get sick, then take a thermos of tea, snacks and a warm blanket with you! New York New Year reviews say that if you make a wish at exactly 00:00, being on the site between 9th Street and Grand Army Plaza, then your most cherished dream will come true!

Fireworks again

Now you don't have to come up with dozens of snacks and New Year's dishes to treat guests, and then invent an entertainment program and make the evening unforgettable. In New York, there is a "Fireworks Cruise", which moves on the water on the cherished night, treats you with fragrant champagne and delicious snacks. Perhaps not everyone will like the buffet table prepared for guests. However, you will definitely enjoy the beautiful view of deafening colorful fireworks exploding over the metropolis.

And the main feature of the "Firework Cruise" is that literally the entire coastline is reflected in the water, as in a mirror. It gives the impression that you are in a real fairy tale!

This is not Okroshka for you

Traditional festive dishes are turkey baked in the oven and poured with cranberry sauce. It does not matter that this recipe is often used for Thanksgiving and Christmas - Americans love this crispy bird.

At the same time, the people in New York are open, because it is not just a city, but a huge beehive that kindly received people from all over the world. Everyone is used to celebrating the holiday not only in the family circle, but also among friends. And even if you have financial problems - it does not matter. Each guest will bring snacks out of respect.

Of course, what celebration would be without drinks? In addition to classic strong alcohol, residents prepare warming cocktails for the New Year in New York (you can see a photo of the drinks below). These include Irish grog, mulled wine, and even hot tea with cinnamon and berries. It is very important that these warming cocktails, tea or cocoa be served with gingerbread cookies or pies made in the appropriate theme.

Perhaps you will be one of the few people in this American city who will put together the coolest New Year's Eve party with famous dishes on the Russian table!

Let's travel

If you are still choosing where to go to celebrate the holiday, we recommend that you pay attention to the tour in New York. For the New Year, travel companies offer discounts, especially if you are going to celebrate the celebration with the whole family. Of course, you will have to tinker a little with a visa in order to fly to the US metropolis for 10-14 days.

Don't let the prices scare you. Compared to holidays on the islands, where many Russians strive to get, a tour to New York will cost several times cheaper. For example, for only 200,000 rubles you can go to a magical city for 1-2 weeks,at the same time, the operator will offer you a cozy hotel, a transfer, a flight with a transfer, and even independently issue a visa for you. For this amount, you can have a great rest for two people, which makes the New Year holiday a little romantic getaway. The reason for such a high price, compared to Thailand or Turkey, is the flight. Charter flights do not fly to New York, and before the celebration all airlines are loaded, so prices go up.

What about the reviews?

Now you know where to celebrate the New Year in New York. Reviews of the holiday in this wonderful city prove that after such a weekend you can be impressed for a lifetime. Let's find out the most popular traveler reviews!

New York is a special city, because there the New Year is celebrated not on the night of December 31 to January 1, but from December 24 to 25. At the same time, on the January night, residents and guests of the metropolis have fun on a grand scale. Often the holiday coincides with Christmas, so on this evening everyone gathers in the family circle, give each other gifts and pray for the next year.

A separate review should be devoted to jewelry. Indeed, Americans know how an ideal house should look like on holidays - this is their national trait. While we are decorating artificial Christmas trees, born in the USSR, the apartments, houses and streets of New Yorkers literally merge into a single fiery composition. At the same time, large cities in Russia, such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, are not considered, although they are famous for theirbeauty on New Year's Eve.