Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2023 In The Bridgeport Area

BRIDGEPORT, CT —New Year's Eve is right around the corner in Bridgeport, and Patch has you covered with some festive things to do in the area to ring in the New Year.

Heading to New York City to celebrate is always an option, or if you're Taylor Swift, heading to Kansas City, Missouri. But others might be more tempted to stay close to home as they celebrate the beginning of 2024.

Here is a look at some events happening in the Bridgeport area:

• Certified Bangers NYE Bash @ Park City Music Hall, Bridgeport: Featuring DJ Laki + Drew Angus. For more information, click here.

• NYE Bash @ Basso Restaurant & Wine Bar, Westport: "Welcome 2024 dancing to Manny Montañez's Boogaloo! Ticket includes: Cotillon and Open Bar from 9:30pm until Midnight." For more information, click here.
• Fairfield Theatre Company Presents: NYE Party feat. LaMP, Fairfield: "Get ready to rock, roll, and revel in the most electrifying night of the year! Come join us at Fairfield Theatre Company on New Years Eve for the best party in town." For more information, click here.
• Stress Factory Comedy Club, Bridgeport: New Years Eve Extravaganza with Dean Edwards. For more information, click here.
• Artisan, Southport: "RING IN THE NEW YEAR AT ARTISAN. 1st seating 5 to 7pm with a la carte pricing; Gala Dinner & Dance 8:30 til late" For more information, click here.
• La Plage, Westport: "...join us New year's eve to ring in 2024 in style, we will feature an a la carte seating from 5 to 7pm followed by our Gala Dinner, 5 course tasting menu from 8:30 on..." For more information, click here.
• Prohibition New Year's Eve @ Washington Prime, Norwalk: "3 - Course Dinner + Open Bar All Night; Choice of App, Entrée, Dessert + 5-Hour Open Bar, Dancing, Champagne Toast at Midnight; Dress to Impress in your Favorite Roaring 20’s Attire; Reservations Required - Must be 21+" For more information, click here.

In the United States, one of the most popular New Year’s Eve traditions is the dropping of the giant ball in New York City’s Times Square. Other U.S. cities have adopted iterations of the ball drop — the Chick Drop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the giant Potato Drop

in Boise, Idaho, for example.

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.