5,000 Plus Revelers Clock in at Middnight on Main

Those of us who call Middletown home were thrilled to see the city celebrate New Year's eve with a bang. It was a point of pride to see draw 6,500 folks to Middletown Saturday with 100 performances and activities, gourmet food, spectacular fireworks and a one-night-only Three's Company art gallery show.

By 6 p.m., organizer Lucy McMillan said every one of the 6,500 Middnight on Main buttons was sold out.

Patricia Kantrowitz of at Riverview Plaza set a personal goal to exceed the store's $1,000 profit from last December by selling Haitian art to revelers. She came within $20 of doing so.

Next door, Priscilla Harnesk, owner of , reported the ice cream store had its best night of sales since it opened in 2006.

Our captured the revelry moment by moment — from 3 p.m. to midnight — with the help of fellow Tweeters on the street.

Middletown Patch culled the best photos of the night here. We encourage you to upload your own.

Thanks to the organizers and dozens of volunteers who worked so hard to bring Middnight on Main to fruition and let's raise a proverbial glass to making this the first of many enormously successful New Year's Eve celebrations in Middletown.

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