Michael Corwin in New York, New York, USA:
"In New York City, where the parties raged from rooftop to rooftop, New York blew up, though, thank god, not literally. From the Lower East Side to Harlem, people roared with the coming of the new year and fireworks boomed from the East River, the Hudson, and Times Square. Manhattan was screaming from rooftop to rooftop; from my vantage point in the East Village, I looked north to see a pyrotechnic Armageddon.... helicopters roving the air with searchlights, midtown ablaze with white flases, rummblings from Brooklyn.

Manhattan, whose illumination makes for a red night, every night, remained bright after the roars subsided. No catastrophe, only the usual chaos that makes Manhattan a pyrotechnic Armageddon."