Brooklyn’s best bets for ringing in 2018

Celebrating New Year’s out is often a crap shoot—you can commit a lot of money to a prix fixe meal or station yourself at a bar, and discover midway through the night that it’s not the place you want to be when the ball drops. But considering what a downer 2017 has been, politically and otherwise, if you do venture out this year, it will likely be a cathartic New Year’s, a chance to say a whole hearted goodbye to the past and welcome in a more hopeful year. Here are