Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2022 In Sayville-Bayport

SAYVILLE-BAYPORT, NY — With both Christmas and Hanukkah come and gone, many people are looking forward to fun and exciting ways to ring in the New Year.

If staying at home isn't your thing, you still have plenty of options (other than going to Times Square) for couples and families.

Here is a look at some additional events happening in Sayville-Bayport:

• New Year's Eve Party with Lyndy, Bill & Sayville VFW
  • 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
  • VFW Post 433, 400 Lakeland Ave, Sayville, NY
• Land's End New Year Celebration 2023
  • 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
  • 80 Browns River Road, Sayville
• New Year's Eve Brick House Farewell Party
  • 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.
  • BrickHouse Brewery and Restaurant, 67 West Main St, Patchogue
• New Years Eve at Eleanor's Lounge!
  • 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
  • Eleanor's Lounge 4103 Sunrise Hwy, Bohemia
• New Year's Eve Dinner Dance
  • 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
  • Marconi Manor, 333 Moffitt Blvd, Islip
• New Year's Eve Bash
  • 8 p.m.
  • American Legion, 826 Hubal St, Bohemia

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.