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Stay home on New Year’s Eve: Reasons to avoid the NYC party scene

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  • Even your dive bar on the corner has a $45 cover charge that gets you entry into the
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  • Akin to Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve is the perfect night to get ripped off at a restaurant. Expect to see dishes you'd pay half the price for, if not never order at all, on prix-fixe menus that you can't escape if you want a nice restaurant meal on Dec. 31.
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  • Are the Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit working overtime to import the basics and bros from suburbia to destroy our fine city once again? We're still recovering from SantaCon.
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  • You know that person lurking around just hoping for a kiss, or several, at midnight? Steer clear of their territory! Oh, is that you? Definitely don't go out then.
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  • ... and there's no way you'll get a cab. But you can probably get an Uber if you can afford the insane surge pricing.
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  • Oft referred to as the
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  • And there is literally nothing delightful about it.
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  • Who among us hasn't seen an underage reveler who's too drunk to function by 9 p.m. on New Year's Eve? The night is bound to get messy -- and fast.
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  • Your Apple TV isn't going to watch itself.
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  • There's too much pressure to start the year on a high note, which means everything will probably go terribly wrong.
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  • Are you new or something?
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Ring in the new year in style — by closing your windows, locking your doors and staying inside until the storm passes.

That storm we speak of is the drunken money pit that is New Year’s Eve.

New York will be dirtier, more crowded and more expensive than usual. We recommend stocking up on booze (days in advance), firing up your Apple TV and starting 2017 in the best way possible — asleep before the Times Square ball drops.

Here are some of the many, many reasons to stay inside.

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