NEW YEAR’S DAY ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES SHOW ...

ALTERNATIVE NEW YEAR'S DAY SPOKEN WORD/PERFORMANCE EXTRAVAGANZA feat. 150 readers?bring canned food for City Harvest & paperbacks for literacy in jail program, Books Through Bars; Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (betw. Bleecker & Houston Sts.), 212-614-0505; 2 p.m.-12 a.m., free.

COLLECTIVE:UNCONSCIOUS New Year's Day Be-In?nine-hour dance party, open mic, stuff swap, potluck/LES lovesfest to benefit themselves; 145 Ludlow St. (betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.), 212-254-5277; 3 p.m., $10 sugg. don.

MUGSY'S Recover from last night's debauchery w/bagels, lox, Bloody Mary's & smooth, headache-soothing grooves from DJ Poole; 31 2nd Ave. (betw. 1st & 2nd Sts.), 212-460-0992; 4 p.m., free.

30TH-ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S DAY MARATHON READING Past readings have incl. Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Rick Moody, Yoko Ono & Lou Reed. A real "New York experience," you can usually count on Patti Smith & Jim Carroll, for better or worse, and that the event will stretch past midnight...for better or worse; Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St. (2nd Ave.), 212-674-0910; 2 p.m., $15, $12 st./s.c.