This year’s Good Riddance Day event in Times Square 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 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.