I never recommend ANYONE go to NYC for New Year’s Eve. It's full of drunks with no place to pee!
I'd also recommend calling one's lawyer first thing and trying to get out of the purchase contract on that home in that gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood. This is not going to end well.
I just heard that my niece (lily white liberal) is going to NYC for New Years. I mentioned something similar to friends that had a daughter in a suburb 20 miles south of Ferguson. “Oh - she’ll be okay, in fact she is there helping the disadvantaged.”
Nothing I might say will change anything.
No place to pee? Whatta ya think da subways are for? Fugggedaboutit!!