Times Square to Close the Curtain on 2025, Usher in the New Year at the 19th Annual Good Riddance Day

Photo Courtesy of One Times Square

New Yorkers and visitors bade one final goodbye to any unpleasant, frustrating, and forgettable memories from 2025 at the 19th annual Good Riddance Day last Sunday, December 28, at 12:00 p.m., on the Broadway Plaza between 45th and 46th Streets. This year’s Good Riddance Day event offered participants the opportunity to close the curtain on any unhappy memories from 2025 and usher in the new year, allowing all to enter 2026 feeling lighter and with a clean slate.

Jonathan Bennett, host of the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration, led the event from an elevated stage where participants joined him in tossing out bad, unpleasant memories. Participants wrote their bad memories on oversized tickets that they will tear (as a theater usher would at a show), tossed the larger portion into a trash can, kept the smaller portion as a memento, and took a bow. As a grand finale, a large, theater-style curtain will literally and symbolically close in 2025.

The Times Square Alliance and One Times Square are the co-organizers of Times Square New Year’s Eve.

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