Lots of people kept one of New York City’s annual time-honored traditions alive by firing off their guns to mark the new year. For over an hour, after the clock struck 12, dozens of “shots fired” reports crackled over the NYPD’s Special Operations Division and Traffic channel, most of them in a row. Listen to the raw audio below that provides but a small sampling of the late night revelry. Read more »
On New Year’s Eve, Occupy Wall Street activists did what community leaders and business owners have been demanding for weeks, they removed the police barricades surrounding a major landmark in Lower Manhattan. But it was’t the bull that was freed, it was LIberty Plaza. Read more »
You are more likely than the menfolk of every other American city to meet the woman of your dreams on New Year’s Eve (that’s tomorrow!). Even more likely than the men of Towson, Maryland, where single women literally grow on trees (like healthy, wholesome fruits!). Read more »
Parting Shot: Make It Rain

A volunteer practices littering Times Square with confetti in anticipation of tomorrow’s New Year’s Eve festivities, expected to draw more than a million people despite the threat of cold, wet weather and suspicious white vans.
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Diddy, being the friend to the poor and imbibed that he is, wants to help your drunk ass get back to your shitty New York City studio apartment on New Year’s Eve: Read more »
Parting Shot: Countdown

The numbers “one” and “zero” rode into Times Square by pedicab yesterday in preparation for the New Year’s Eve ball drop.
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