That's what New Yorkers celebrating New Year in the past.
A chic young couple toasts New Year's Eve at Manhattan's famous Stork Club. |
Guests of an event at the Plaza Hotel don festive hats and play with noisemakers on New Year's Eve 1937. |
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover celebrates New Year's Eve 1938 undercover in a Mickey Mouse mask. |
A woman emerges from an egg on New Year's Eve 1939. |
Jacqueline Dahdia entertains guests at Havana Madrid on New Year's Eve 1939. |
Peggy Joyce and Jack Buckner drink -- and smoke -- to the New Year in 1939. |
Guests toast to a happy year at the El Morocco club in 1962. |
A Vietnam veteran enjoys a New Year's Eve date at the New Yorker hotel in 1966. |
Revelers toot horns amidst a spray of confetti on New Year's Eve 1967. |
Confetti sets a festive tone for New Year's Eve 1967 at Sammy's Bowery Follies. |
Guests at a Regency Hotel benefit roll the dice on New Year's Eve 1967. |
Guests get a leg up in the coming year with entertainment at Sammy's Bowery Follies on New Year's Eve 1970. |
(Photos: New York Daily News)