It's either a real “last call” — or just another excuse to get blotto.
New Yorkers flocked to “end of the world”-themed parties at local bars tonight to celebrate their potential final hours on Earth as the Mayan calendar predicted doomsday this morning.
The appointed time of world destruction is set for 6:11 a.m. New York time, and Big Apple residents are partying right up to the end.
Apocalyptic bashes in all five boroughs — featuring DJ-centric dance parties, ironic drink specials and invite-only mixers — inspired revelers to party like there’s no tomorrow.
“People are just going nuts. They’re partying like the world’s ending,” said Carly Grant, 22, as the bashes went into the wee hours this morning.
Grant said she was on her way to a house party on the Upper East Side when she decided to shed all inhibitions.
“I want to go wearing nothing — to go out the way I came in,” she said.
Others partygoers hit bars featuring DJs spinning doomsday hits.
Ron Jamison, 27, planned to blow a wad of cash on his last earthly meal: pitchers of beer and lots of hot dogs.
“Might as well spend all my money . . . if the world’s ending . . . There’s no point in saving,” he said.
Other New Yorkers — even those who are not normally night owls — got into the doomsday drinking spirit, saying it was a great excuse to let loose.
“You gotta do what you like,” said Thao Nguien, a teacher from Hell’s Kitchen who was all set to be “drunk and cavorting.”
The boozy, end-of-days bashes included a rooftop party at the posh Midtown club Hudson Terrace and one at the hipster bar Nights and Weekends in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Erika London, a spokeswoman for Hudson Terrace, said staffers prepared drink specials — such as “The Black Hole” and “The Glacial Melt” — after setting up the space for a night “without inhibitions.”
“If the world [did], in fact, come to an end . . . you’[d] be hung over enough not to mind” after the bar’s party, London said.
More optimistic were the ones who planned on celebrating the world’s survival at parties tonight — including an RSVP-only event at the Bowery Hotel and an “End of the Funking World Party” at B.B. King Blues Club.
Beaumarchais, a French cafe in the Meatpacking District, will host an extravagant dinner party, complete with Mayan decor.
Some New Yorkers refused to celebrate — saying they simply had too much to live for — on the good chance that the world wasn’t ending.
“I’m going to see the Dave Matthews Band at the Barclays Center [today],” said a hopeful Ford Paige, 27, of Washington Heights.
Another life-lover, Amanda Muscarello, 23, of Orange County, said she didn’t plan on dying anytime soon, much less before her 24th birthday this weekend.
“My birthday is Sunday — the Mayans can’t do this to me!” she said.
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