New Year's Eve 2022 In Glen Cove: Galas, Kids' Museum Midnight

GLEN COVE, NY — Nearby New Year's Eve options offer something for everyone, whether you want to dance and drink your way into 2023, or if you'd rather take the kids to a fake, earlier ball drop at the children's museum.

Here is a look at some events happening in and around Glen Cove:

• New Year's Eve Gala at The Metropolitan in Glen Cove
• New Year's Eve Dinner Dance at the Polish American Cultural Association
• Nino's Beach NYE 2023
• Fox Hollow New Year's Eve Party
• Countdown to 12 "Noon" Year's Eve at the Long Island Children's Museum
• Black and White Party at Crest Hollow
• Chateau Briand New Year's Eve parties
• New Year's Gigglin' Eve at Governor's Comedy Club
• New Year's Eve Dinner by David Burke at the Garden City Hotel

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.