First Night Boston

First Night Boston, New England’s largest New Year’s Eve party, returns to City Hall Plaza this year to celebrate the start of 2025. The free event runs from 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024 through 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. Segments of the program will be carried live on NBC10 Boston, NECN and Telemundo Boston’s digital platforms….

About 200,000 people are estimated to have attended the First Night Boston celebration Sunday.

The party has started Sunday evening as Boston gets ready to celebrate the new year.

Thousands of people are coming to Boston for a day of musical and dance performances, improv, ice sculptures and the First Night Boston Parade. Events kick off at 11 a.m. 13 hours of events all leading up to the countdown to 2024, a performance by hip hop artist Sammy Adams and midnight fireworks over the Boston Harbor. For the first…

Thousands of people are coming to Boston for a day of music and dance performances, improv, ice sculptures and the First Night Boston Parade.

Thousands of people will gather in Boston to usher in 2024.

First Night Boston 2024 is finally here. And for the first time, it’s being held at City Hall Plaza instead of the usual location in Copley Square. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to visit the city for the 49th annual New Year’s Eve celebration, enjoying musical and dance performances, improv, ice skating, arts and crafts, the First...

We’re just four days from from First Night Boston, which is taking place at City Hall Plaza for the very first time. Here’s what you can expect this weekend.

Just four days from now, First Night Boston will be taking place at City Hall Plaza for the very first time. However, officials on Wednesday outlined some planning and security measures to address before the big celebration.  Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said there will be a strong police presence both at City Hall Plaza and throughout all Boston neighborhoods....

The First Night Boston 2024 celebration will feature live music, with jam-rock group Sons of Levin on the mainstage. They visit the studio to perform their song ‘One of These Days’ and tell us about their art.

Part of Boston’s ‘First Night’ celebration is a parade and, this year, there’s a new route. Parade director Alex Mrusek gives us the scoop.

Boston’s New Years Eve celebration, ‘First Night’ is going to be full of fun activities, including events at City Hall Plaza, Improv Asylum, the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and more. Derek Zagami heads into the city to learn all about it.

First Night Boston is less than two weeks away. We’ve already learned who the headliner will be — platinum-selling hip-hop artist Sammy Adams. But what does the rest of the schedule look like? First Night Boston announced its full schedule of performances on Tuesday. Beginning at 11:11 a.m., artistic and musical performances kick-off at the Main Stage with Hyde...

First Night Boston announced Thursday that platinum-selling hip hop artist Sammy Adams will headline this year’s New Year’s Eve festivities. The Massachusetts native will help ring in the New Year following 12 hours of free entertainment, light shows, ice sculptures and other family-friendly programming. With the illuminated and historic Boston City Hall as a backdrop, Adams will take the...

First Night Boston, the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration, will have a new home for its hub this year at the newly updated City Hall Plaza, event organizers announced Monday. Hundreds of thousands of people attend the event each year, which this year will start at noon on Sunday, December 31 and ring in 2024, ending around 12:30 a.m. on…