SUMMARY:”New York’s best tour guides will lead you around the City Hall area and the Brooklyn Bridge to learn little known facts about the 19th century’s greatest technical marvel. If history repeats itself, fireworks will be visible from Central Park, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and New Jersey as well as the Empire State Building light show.”
WHERE:Meeting Point: Washington Square Park, under the arch
COST:FREE
SUMMARY:”Start the year off right — on your bike! Come celebrate New Year’s Eve in the great outdoors. Ending party at Central Park’s Belvedere Castle with music and fireworks! Bring food and drink to share!”
SUMMARY:”Beware, Brooklyn has been balkanized. Its territory has been divided into a myriad of geo-cultural entities ready to wage war onto one anoother. The Zagnut will celebrate the new years by celebrating the chaos it helped create in the first place. The best party band around will usher the new year by playing the kind of brass and accordion music usually found at weddings throughout the Balkan. They combine elements of Greek, Turkish and Roma (gypsy) music. They will make you drink Serbian Moonshine and dance in odd meters faster than you can say Opa!. - until the dawn of 2007″
WHERE:Dancing and the costume contest are at the Central Park Bandshell, just south of the 72nd Street Transverse in Central Park. Run starts on Central Park’s East Drive south of 72nd Street (map)
COST:$40 to run, FREE to watch
SUMMARY:”Usher in 2007 with speedy style! Featuring a costume parade, dancing, and fireworks, this four-miler is more of a party than a race. Count down the minutes ’til midnight and then count down the miles ’til the finish line.”
SUMMARY:”Join us this New Year’s Eve at Comix for our all-pro comedy showcase, prix-fixe dinner, champagne toast & post-show dancing & festivities! ” With BOBBY COLLINS, CHRISTIAN FINNEGAN, TODD BARRY, MIKE SOMMERVILLE, MARINA FRANKLIN and RACHEL FEINSTEIN
Rubulad presents The Shimmer Ball – A New Year’s Eve Masquerade
10pm — Sunday December 31
WHERE:Rubulad, 338 Flushing Ave, between Classon and Taffe Pl, Brooklyn
L train to Bedford Avenue > B61 bus on Driggs to Flushing Ave (10 mins) > left under BQE > Rubulad’s on your right just past the gas station *OR* J / M / Z to Marcy Ave > walk along BQE > left under BQE at Flushing.
COST:$15 with fantabulous costume, $20 without
SUMMARY:”Featuring live Music by The Hungry March Band, The Fabulous Entourage + Adam Matta, Jellyboy the Clown’s Low Flying Circus of Shame (flabbergasting Circus fom Philly)”
“You can help us continue to have a Rubulad in this space by being quiet coming and going, staying inside the space during the event and not pissing all over the sidewalk as soon as you get around the corner – which, incidentally, does attract the police and they will write you a summons.”
COST:With invite (available on website): $20 before Midnight, $25 Midnight-4am, $15 after 4am
Without invite: $30
SUMMARY:”Uptown music for downtown kids. New Year’s Eve “Dance, Dance, Dance’ Gala”
“DressCode: Sequins and Spandex, Leather and Lace, Silk Blouses and Satin Pants and Solid Gold. . . like the show”
[Editor’s Note: Please don’t wear Satin Pants. Please. They just don’t look good on anyone.]
SUMMARY:”Jesse Malin and his band The Heat will bring back the glory days of New York’s 1990’s glam and punk rock scene. The Coy Dogs and The Hunt will round out the evening’s live music. D.J. and former D Generation bassist Howie Pyro will dish out tunes throughout the evening, and a troupe of Go Go dancers will help kick in the New Year.”
SUMMARY:”Vaudevillians, gypsies, party bands and a plethora of circus performers ring in the New Year at Makor for our annual full building party. Come see an eclectic and electric group of artists work their holiday magic: jugglers, carney personalities, fortune-tellers and daring hula-hoopists augment a live music lineup whose genre stylings run the gamut from sultry Parisian rock to Big Easy funk. With a 2-hour open bar (9-11pm), video screenings, a kissing booth, prizes, games and a midnight champagne toast all included, our three-ringed circus of New Years entertainment will certainly satisfy your years end party needs.”
WHERE:Stain, 766 Grand St at Humboldt St, Brooklyn
COST:FREE
SUMMARY:”Featuring tunes of the time played live by the Seth Foster duo, a classic movie screening, later night original old recordings as DJed by M.W. Haar, a dropping ball of some sort, J.W. Dundee Honey Brown free beer samples, New York sparkling wine, costumes prizes (King Kong?, Roosevelts? Olive Oyl?)… So put a feather in your fedora and join us for a swingin’ party”
SUMMARY:”The famous Galapagos New Year’s Eve party is getting even more glamorous this year!
At Galapagos we know how to do New Years Eve. In fact we’re excellent at it. Years ago we had a thought: if we had to work then we were going to make damn sure we made the party that we’d absolutely die to go to if we weren’t working! So what’s on this year? The best of New York’s classic Burlesque featuring the Peach Tartes and good old-fashioned sweaty New Years Eve dancing at one of New York’s best parties by Your 33 Black Angels. Come before midnight and stay all night because for ONE NIGHT ONLY! Galapagos has a license to serve alcohol beyond 4am!”
COST:$17 if you arrive before 9:00pm
$27 between 9pm and 2am
$17 if you arrive after 2am
SUMMARY:”This is the New Years you dream of. We’ve taken over three floors of a downtown Manhattan brownstone/cabaret club and built out a plush dreamscape of seductive performance, intoxicating beats, cozy corners and a massive midnight spectacle of drums, acrobatics and endless bottles of champagne. Expect the decadence of French Quarter New Orleans spiked with the opulence of a New York City speakeasy.”
You must mention *thedanger* or *GS2007* for entry. When we say “speakeasy” we don’t kid.
WHERE:Williamsburg White Room, S. 3rd Ave and Roebling, Williamsburg
COST:$15
SUMMARY:Featuring Foreign Islands, Northern State and Right On Dynamite(www.myspace.com/rightondynamite). FREE Howling Monkey, FREE Oskar Blues Beer, FREE Miller High Life. Open Bar from 6pm-8pm, Two for One Drinks from 1am-6am.
SUMMARY:Sleeper: “Waking up in 2173, Woody’s Miles Monroe finds out his rent is “2,000 months overdue” and he’s the only person alive without an identification number in what’s now a police state — and soon he’s on the run with rebel Diane Keaton.”
Bananas: “Woody’s Fielding Mellish becomes a banana republic’s first Jewish president when the former jefe demands fresh underwear (worn outside) on the half-hour. With sportscasting legend Howard Cosell play-by-playing an assassination and a marriage consummation.”
SUMMARY:”This savagely witty, inspired satire of rock documentaries follows the downward spiral of Spinal Tap, a 12th-rate British heavy metal band that clings to the dream of greatness, despite decades of shifting musical trends and damning reviews. Features priceless performances from Christopher Guest (For Your Consideration, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman), Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. If you insist, we’ll turn the volume up to 11!”
SUMMARY:”Global pre New Year celebration with Akim Funk Buddha’s Urban tea ceremony BELLY DANCE BEAT BOX BODY POP. Join this innovative celebration of live music, dance and vocal effects.”
SUMMARY:”Starring Peter Fonda as Wyatt (alias Captain America) and [Dennis] Hopper as Billy, it traces the hippie duo’s adventures as they mount their seriously chopped hogs on a journey to find the real America en route to Mardi Gras. In Arizona, they visit a commune whose members are having a tough time, and in a small Texas town they’re jailed for joining a parade. But they’re quickly sprung by an ACLU lawyer, the quirky, hard-drinking George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), who accepts their offer to join them on the trip to New Orleans, eager to visit the best whorehouse in the South. EASY RIDER accurately reflects the tensions and hostilities of the period.”
WHERE:Union Hall, 702 Union St. at Fifth Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
COST:$7
SUMMARY:”You have one last chance, one last night, to escape the obligations, kick back, go on a bender, and grab an eyeful of luscious lovely ladies in various states of undress, all for an incredibly affordable price!”
SUMMARY:”Who needs Johnny Depp when you’ve got Gene Wilder? The world is astounded when recluse Willy Wonka announces that five lucky kids will be given a tour of his chocolate factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will even win a lifetime supply of his famous Wonka chocolate. Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his own family, along with four other somewhat odd children, are fortunate enough to get this chance of a lifetime and are let inside the most popular and powerful chocolate factory.”
SUMMARY:”This savagely witty, inspired satire of rock documentaries follows the downward spiral of Spinal Tap, a 12th-rate British heavy metal band that clings to the dream of greatness, despite decades of shifting musical trends and damning reviews. Features priceless performances from Christopher Guest (For Your Consideration, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman), Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. If you insist, we’ll turn the volume up to 11!”
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