An out-of-control New Year’s Eve celebration in New York in 1827, as described in Gotham, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace:

“On New Year’s Eve, as the city bade farewell to 1827, several thousand workingmen–laborers, apprentices, butcher boys, chimney sweeps–set out from the Bowery on a raucous march through the darkened downtown streets, drinking, beating drums and tin kettles, shaking rattles, blowing horns. The crowd headed down Pearl Street through the heart of the city’s commercial district, smashing crates and barrels and making what one account described as ‘the most hideous noises.’ From there the marchers wheeled across town to the Battery, where they knocked out the windows of genteel residences and attempted to tear down the iron railing around the park. At two in the morning they tromped up Broadway, just in time to harass revelers leaving a fancy dress-ball at the City Hotel. A contingent of watchmen appeared but, after a tense confrontation, gave way, and ‘the multitude passed noisily and triumphantly up Broadway.'”