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

New Yorkers and visitors will bid one final goodbye to any unpleasant, frustrating, and forgettable memories from 2025 at the 19th annual Good Riddance Day on Sunday, December 28, at 12:00 p.m., on the Broadway Plaza between 45th and 46th Streets. This year’s Good Riddance Day event offers 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, will lead the event from an elevated stage where participants will join him in tossing out bad, unpleasant memories. Participants will write their bad memories on oversized tickets that they will tear (as a theater usher would at a show), toss the larger portion into a trash can, keep the smaller portion as a memento, and take a bow. As a grand finale, a large, theater-style curtain will literally and symbolically close on 2025. The public is invited to register in advance here.

The Times Square Alliance and One Times Square are the co-organizers of Times Square New Year’s Eve. For more information about Times Square New Year’s Eve, visit http://timessquarenyc.org or follow @TimesSquareNYC on Instagram.

For more information about One Times Square, visit  https://onetimessquare.com/ or follow them on Instagram at @OneTimesSquareNYC.  

WHAT: 19th Annual Good Riddance Day

WHEN:   Sunday, December 28, at 12:00 p.m.
Press check-in: 11:30 a.m.

WHERE:   Broadway Plaza between 45th and 46th Streets

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