Peekskill, Yorktown to Celebrate New Year with Ball Drops
Tired of spending the final hours of each year watching Ryan Seacrest and Jenny McCarthy on the boob tube?
Not interested in being sandwiched between intoxicated strangers for hours in Times Square and then stumbling around to get back home safely amidst endless crowds?
The City of Peekskill and Town of Yorktown are offering alternatives for residents to ring in the new year closer to home.
The Peekskill 75th Anniversary Committee will be hosting the Second Annual Peekskill New Year’s Eve Ball Drop at the junction of South Division Street and Central Avenue. Kacey Morabito Grean of WHUD will host the evening’s festivities, which will air live on the city’s local television station.
A free shuttle bus will start transporting visitors from Peekskill’s train station at 8 p.m. and a DJ will open up the evening of entertainment at 9 p.m. Hey Baby Band will take the stage at 10 p.m. and Grean will kick off the countdown activities at 11:30. At midnight the ball will drop to usher in 2016 with a spectacular fireworks display in the backdrop.
Hey Baby Band will continue performing until 1 a.m. and the shuttle bus to the train station will end at 2 a.m. Peekskill’s eateries on Restaurant Row will all be open throughout the night.
Meanwhile, the Yorktown Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the Town of Yorktown, will be holding the town’s inaugural New Year’s Eve Ball Drop at the intersection of Veterans Road and Commerce Street in downtown Yorktown.
Yorktown’s celebration will begin at 11 p.m. with a DJ spinning tunes. A countdown announcing the ball’s descent as 2015 comes to a close will be accompanied by a pyrotechnic display at midnight.
Town officials who were victorious in the November election will be sworn-in on the main stage after the hoopla dies down. Taking their oaths of office will be Supervisor Michael Grace, councilmen Tom Diana and Ed Lachterman, Town Justice Gary Raniolo and Town Clerk Diana Quast.
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