Ever want to watch a party from thousands of miles away, and feel like your apart of it? Well, now you can thanks to the internet.
New Year’s Eve is a fun time for some and a confusing time for many. It’s a night full of possibilities, expectations, and undercooked appetizers. There’s going to be fun, food and maybe even frolicking but what if you want a different kind of ambiance at your party? What if you’re not looking for the usual New Year’s Eve hype of overpaid talking heads telling you to get ready for the new year like it’s something we have to actively prep for.
What if instead of overhyped pop songs, or Carson Daly defining age, you instead wanted to watch the actual city of New York swell with excitement as the fever pitch hit’s a crescendo and the entire populous ebbs and flows as they sway to the sounds of Auld Lang Syne? Now you can thanks to the power of the internet.
There are a few websites that offer you a direct feed straight into the heart of New York, and it comes from different angles. There’s timessquareball.net, which offers looks at the crowd and two shots at the ball itself. Then there’s timessquarenyc.org, which also provides a specific look at New York’s time square so you can celebrate with thousands of people without the need to be there and feel overwhelmed. If that’s not your pace, and you want more options of the scene, you can do so by going to earthcam.com and picking the angle and vantage point that you want to watch the festivities from.
There are even more options online if you go looking, but these are probably the three best you can find unless you have one up your sleeve that the rest of the world doesn’t know about. Remember to drink responsibly, call a cap and put away the dip if it’s just going to sit. That stuff’s too expensive to let go to waste.