Ring In The New Year With Fireworks At Prospect Park And Coney Island

Friends and neighbors, there’s no need to crowd into Times Square to watch a ball drop! Go Brooklyn this New Year’s Eve and make your way to Prospect Park for the annual fireworks display.

Starting at 11pm, there will be hot chocolate and music at Grand Army Plaza, and then it’s on to the big show at midnight, all presented by the Prospect Park Alliance and Borough President Eric Adams.

If you plan on arriving right before the midnight show (which is what we’ve done the past several years), Prospect Park suggests watching from anywhere in Grand Army Plaza, inside the park on the West Drive, and along Prospect Park West between Grand Army Plaza and 9th Street.

Or if you’ve got access to a nearby rooftop, be sure you’re up there at the stroke of midnight, because chances are pretty good you’ll get a view!

And if you’d really like to make it a festive evening, head over to Coney Island by 9pm for the first-ever ball drop at the Coney Island Parachute Jump (West 16th Street and the Boardwalk).

The drop — of a simulated ball made up of 8,000 LED lights, which is probably as bright and more efficient than the Times Square one — will be followed by a live music, sideshow performers and, finally, a fireworks display at midnight.