Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2022 Around Northridge-Chatsworth

LOS ANGELES, CA — As 2022 comes to a close, Angelenos can party like animals at the LA Zoo, or party like it's the roaring 20s at the 9th annual Union Station "Prohibition NYE" bash, or join in the ultimate block party at Grand Park's New Year's Eve Party, spanning six city blocks.

One of the many reasons to celebrate New Year's Eve: there's always something to do in Los Angeles.

Here is a look at some additional events happening around Los Angeles:

• Grand Park’s NYELA
• Universal Studios Hollywood New Year's EVE Fest & Fireworks 2022: Universal City
• Prohibition New Year's Eve 2022-23: DTLA Union Statio
• New Year’s Eve Countdown To 2023: Pacific Park Ferris Wheel, Santa Monica
• Ty Dolla Sign | Nightingale Plaza | New Year's Eve Party
• Family-Friendly 'Noon Year's Eve' 2022: Library Park, Monrovia
• New Year's Eve Fireworks & Glow Party 2022: Marina Del Rey
• New Year’s Eve Party at The Hollywood Roosevelt
• Celebrate NYE with Pink Taco
• New Year's Eve Comedy Show at The Crow
• 'New Year’s Eve Night Dive' 2022: Aquarium Of Pacific, Long Beach
• Pull My Finger New Year's Eve Edition - Family-Friendly Comedy Show
• Vibez: A Drug & Alcohol-Free New Year Celebration In West Hollywood by The Phoenix

In the United States, one of the most popular New Year’s Eve traditions is, of course, the dropping of the giant ball in New York City’s Times Square. Various cities have adopted their own iterations of the event — the Peach Drop in Atlanta, the Chick Drop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the giant Potato Drop in Boise, Idaho.

The end of one year and beginning of another is often celebrated with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” a Scottish folk song whose title roughly translates to “days gone by,” according to Encyclopedia Britannica and History.com.

The history of New Year’s resolutions dates back 8,000 years to ancient Babylonians, who would make promises to return borrowed objects and pay outstanding debts at the beginning of the new year, in mid-March when they planted their crops.

According to legend, if they kept their word, pagan gods would grant them favor in the coming year. If they broke the promise, they would fall out of God’s favor, according to a history of New Year’s resolutions compiled by North Hampton Community College New Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Many secular New Year’s resolutions focus on imagining new, improved versions of ourselves. The failure rate of New Year’s resolutions is about 80 percent, according to U.S. News & World Report. There are myriad reasons, but a big one is they’re made out of remorse for gaining weight, for example, and aren’t accompanied by a shift in attitude and a plan to meet the stress and discomfort of changing a habit or condition.