Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2022 In Queens

QUEENS — New Yorkers know they don't have to be in Times Square to have a blast on New Year's Eve. All five boroughs, but especially Queens, are filled with events to celebrate the new year after two years of canceled events.

The outbreak of the Covid-19 virus was potent in the late 2020 winter months, and the pandemic still had partygoers in a chokehold coming into 2022. Now, New Yorkers are ready to organize dinners, festivities, parties, and ball-drop watchings to celebrate 2023.

Patch compiled a list of New Year's Eve events taking place in Queens on January 31st.

New Year’s Eve at The Rooftop (Far Rockaway)

Tickets include an open bar from 8 p.m.-12 a.m., passed appetizers and snacks, a live DJ, and watching the ball drop with a champagne toast.

• Time: 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.
• Address: The Roof at the Rockaway Hotel (108-10 Rockaway Beach Drive)
• Price: $100

New Year’s Eve Open Bar Party at The Penthouse (Long Island City)

Tickets include several table packages.

• Time: 9 p.m. - 4 a.m.
• Address: The Penthouse (8-08 Queens Plaza S)
• Price: $75

Amazura Nightclub New Year's Eve Champagne party 2023 (Jamaica)

• Time: 10 p.m. - 4 a.m.
• Address: Amazura (91-12 144th Pl)
• Price: $40

New Year’s Eve 2023 Grand Ballroom Celebration (Corona)

Tickets include hors d’oeuvres, salad, dinner, pasta station, dessert, and liquor service.

• Time: 9 p.m. - 2 p.m.
• Address: Terrace on the Park (52-11 111th Street)
• Price: $155

New Year’s Eve At Cavali (Long Island City)

Tickets include a three-hour open bar and hors d'oeuvres.

• Time: 9 p.m. - 4 p.m.
• Address: Cavali New York (36-21 Steinway St.)
• Price: $28.38

New Year’s Eve At Vista Sky Lounge (Long Island City)

Tickets include an open bar and a prix fixe menu.

• Time: 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
• Address: Vista Sky Lounge (2705 39th Ave)
• Price: $130

A Night At The Oscars at Russo’s on the Bay (Howard Beach)

Tickets include an open bar and dinner.

• Time: 7 p.m.
• Address: Russo’s on the Bay (162-45 Cross Bay Boulevard)
• Price: $250

Dylan's (Forest Hills)

• Time: 11 a.m. - 2 a.m.
• Address: 103-19 Metropolitan Avenue
• Price: Free

NYE @ Austin's Ale House (Kew Gardens)

Tickets include an open bar and an appetizer buffet.

• Time: 10 p.m. - 1 a.m.
• Address: 82-70 Austin Street
• Price: $65

Reef Restaurant & Bar (Forest Hills)

Reservation includes a three-course meal, belly dancing performance, and wine.

• Time: 9 p.m.
• Address: Reef Restaurant & Bar (108-02 72nd Ave.)
• Price: $99

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.