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What are you doing for New Year's? Here's 12 spots in Philly to ring in 2017

The fireworks were a surprise during the Holiday Tree Lighting at the Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest in Phila. on December 4, 2015.
The fireworks were a surprise during the Holiday Tree Lighting at the Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest in Phila. on December 4, 2015.Read moreElizabeth Robertson / staff

In Frank Loesser's "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?," a narrator asks "Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight / When it's exactly 12 o'clock that night?"

That plea is a lonely, romantic question. Our question is less love-struck, but no less crucial – what do you have planned, and what the heck are you waiting for?