Tradition: ‘Sushi’ the Drag Queen Gets Lowered Into Giant Shoe for New Years

New Year's Eve has a decidedly different take in the Keys (KeysInfoNet)

New Year's Eve revelers can expect to combine bubbly with balmy in the Florida Keys, raising champagne toasts at celebrations along the island chain.

While New York City is famed for its Times Square ball drop, Key West is to stage four widely differing takeoffs on that New Year's Eve tradition as midnight approaches on Dec. 31.

The arrival of 2014 is to be heralded on Duval Street with the drop of a gigantic manmade conch shell, the symbol of the Florida Keys, to the flat roof of Sloppy Joe's Bar, 201 Duval.