Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2022 In In The East Brunswick Area

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — It's almost time to ring in the New Year and scream goodbye to 2022.

From hotel parties to dinners and dancing, here is a look at some events happening in the East Brunswick area:

• New Year’s Eve, Orchard Park by David Burke: New Year’s Eve a la carte from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Special prix fixe 3-course menu, live DJ and dancing, party favors, photo booth, champagne toast & more with reservations starting at 8 p.m. On New Year’s Day enjoy brunch from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. A la carte dinner menu from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.
• New Year's Eve Trap & Paint Party, Above Art Studios, New Brunswick: Do something different this New Year's Eve. Get creative by painting something while enjoying a drink. For more information, click here. Tickets are priced at $45 and $50, plus fees.
• New Year Party and Ball Drop, Metuchen: Ok, this event is not on New Year's Eve, but a day earlier. Nevertheless, it promises to be fun. The Metuchen Downtown Alliance will be hosting an early New Year celebration with a Ball Drop around 6:45 p.m. on Dec. 30 at 33 Pearl St. Event is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Click here for info.
• Bollywood New Year's Eve, King Palace, Edison:If you enjoy Bollywood music, celebrate New Year's Eve with great ambiance, amazing food and dancing. There will also be a kids section along with volunteers so you don’t have to worry. Click here.
• New Year's Eve Party, Big Shots, Woodbridge: Ring in the New Year with a complimentary champagne toast and Ball Drop at Bog Shots Restaurant & Lounge, Woodbridge. There will
• an open Bar & buffet, DJs, dancing, party favors and more. Click here.

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.