Times Square Alliance : Good Riddance Day

December 28, 2012
12 PM - 1 PM
Broadway Plaza between 43rd and 44th Streets

Out with the Old, in with the New!

On December 28, participants said goodbye to their worst memory from 2012 once and for all on Good Riddance Day!

WCBS-FM 101.1 on air personality, Sue O'Neal hosted the event and had participants share their stories with the crowd that gathered in Times Square. Whether they bid farewell to pink slips or parking tickets, credit cards or Valentine's Day cards, their bad memories from 2012 were destroyed, never to be seen again. A Cintas secure, mobile shredding truck along with a dumpster and rubber mallet were on hand to discard any distasteful, embarrassing and downright depressing memories from 2012.

Good Riddance Day is inspired by a Latin American tradition in which New Year’s revelers put artifacts from the previous year into giant dolls and set them on fire.

Click here to submit your 2012 Good Riddance online.

Cintas 2012 Good Riddance Day Contest Winners Announced

Adam Ingber of Long Beach, N.Y., the grand prize winner of the Good Riddance Day contest, is declaring “Good Riddance” on behalf of the all the people across the region who experienced great inconvenience, heartache and pain in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Ingber and his family was displaced after their home suffered major damage during Hurricane Sandy,

Most Creative

At the event Cintas awarded an iPad and tickets to the Broadway show Mamma Mia! for the Most Creative entry.

Pearl Chan won for saying Good Riddance to 2012 - the worst year of her life. Chan took care of her chronically ill boyfriend for 2 years only to be dumped and cheated on after he recovered.

Press Release >>

Say GOOD RIDDANCE to hunger and poverty

Co-producers of New Year's Eve in Times Square, Countdown Entertainment and the Times Square Alliance have designated WhyHunger the official charity for Times Square New Year's Eve 2013. Make a donation to WhyHunger and receive an IMAGINE THERE'S NO HUNGER bracelet! 100% of donated amount will be donated to WhyHunger grassroots partners. This red bracelet is embossed with the Hard Rock and WhyHunger logos and #IMAGINENOHUNGER.