I just remembered I had a New Year's Day tradition for a bunch of years...

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Since people have been posting about NYE traditions.
As long as it was decent weather; no snow on the ground, not raining, not say 30°f, or below I'd walk to Ft Tryon Park to it's southern entrance.

It has a wide boulevard going North - South as you enter with side paths going off. The left 2 going north go through sections of the main garden which edges the western side of the pathway.

It'd be quite cool to coldish. Quiet. What I loved most was often seeing a hawk hovering in the sky. There's be people there, but certainly less than Spring, Summer, earlier Fall.

I guess it was unconsciously meditative.

Something you don't think of in Manhatran until the hawk Pale Male lived on a Central Park East building.
People loved that!