Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2022 In Bergen County

MAHWAH, NJ — It's time to celebrate the end of 2022 and get 2023 off on the right foot.

If you're set to be closer to home while you ring in the new year, here are a few places to go and things to do in Bergen County.

• Blue Moon Cafe’s Family New Year's Eve Party
• New Year's Eve Countdown to Noon at BounceU
• New Year's Eve & New Year's Day Events at Sofia Englewood
• New Year's Eve Dinner at Paisano's Restaurant
• Taverna Veranda New Year's Eve Dinner & Celebration
• New Year's Eve SUPER BASH @ The Sky View Rooftop

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.