MILLENNIUM COUNTDOWN

Celebrate the New Year with about 25,000 of your closest friends at New York City’s Javits Convention Center. The $25-million event, dubbed “The Party of the Century,” will start at 6 p.m. Dec. 31 and end at 6 a.m. Jan. 1. For $1,000 per person, you get a buffet dinner and breakfast; open bar including champagne; entertainment by Enrique Iglesias, Aretha Franklin, Tom Jones, Chuck Berry, Sting, Joan Rivers and others; disco dancing to Kool & the Gang; and ballroom dancing to the Duke Ellington Orchestra. With a $2,500 “VIP” ticket you get various extras, and a dinner designed by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Reservations: telephone (877) 556-2000.