'Scrap' heap for 2022

Dozens pen good riddance to year’s woes

New Yorkers have had enough of bad breakups, bum knees and brutal Russian invasions.

At least 70 people flocked to Times Square Wednesday to throw away the past year’s disappointments, nasty memories and emotional sore spots at the annual Good Riddance Day event.

To kick-start a happier 2023, folks scrawled phrases on sheets of paper — ranging from “self doubt” to “cancelled flights” — then tossed them into a large trash can.

“I’m saying good riddance to this goddamn pandemic,” said Jacob Persily, 28, who runs a volunteer program at Robert Wood Johnson hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.

Persily said he also hopes 2023 is a more peaceful year worldwide.

“I’m hoping for us all to learn to get along a little bit better,” he said.

Chloe Perruchot, 20, a Big Apple transplant from Paris, France, said she’s bidding adieu to a bad breakup.

“I say goodbye to anxiety, stress and [being] heartbroken,” she said. “I broke up with my boyfriend and I want to be a happy single in 2023.”

Jaclyn Gerowski, 35, of the Upper East Side, said sayonara to the year’s most “annoying people” and vowed to become more discerning about who she hangs out with.

“I feel like I just keep people around because I don’t like to be mean,” said Gerowski, who works in advertising. “I think this year I’m going to try to not say yes to people who I don’t want to be around anymore.”

Others threw away last year’s thwarted goals.

Daisy Omallie, 54, bid farewell to all the weight she didn’t lose in 2022.

“[Goodbye to] the last seven pounds,” she said, adding that next year, “I wouldn’t mind 10 but I’ll accept seven.”

Global concerns

Meanwhile, Cedric Jean-Louis, a 19-year-old from East Flatbush, Brooklyn, was thinking on a more macro level about what memories he’d like to get lost.

The City Tech student tossed in a scrap that read: “Ukraine vs Russia.”

After letting go of 2022’s worst memories, participants in the 16th annual Good Riddance Day then ran an obstacle course — meant to symbolize overcoming the hard stuff this coming year.

But pounding the pavement is exactly what Richard Litt, 73, a retired teacher from the Upper West Side, wanted to forget.

“My bad knees made it hard to walk the entire year,” he said.

“I want to say Good Riddance to: All of 2022!” his sheet of paper read.