New Year's Eve went off without reports of any major incidents in the Hunter, police say.
Thousands of people packed homes, licensed venues and community spaces on Tuesday night to ring-in the new decade and mark the end of 2019.
A NSW Police spokesperson said on Wednesday there had been no reports of major incidents across the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens-Hunter and Hunter Valley police districts during the New Year festivities and crowds were generally well behaved.
Newcastle City Police District duty officer Inspector Ian Macey told the Newcastle Herald there were no reports of alcohol-related incidents in the city during the New Year's Eve celebrations.
He said party-goers had "minimal interaction with police" on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.
"From a police perspective, the crowds were very large on the foreshore but very well behaved," Inspector Macey said.
City of Newcastle said its foreshore event was a success.
The 9pm fireworks went ahead, but the council said in a statement on social media on Tuesday night that the display "had to be cut short for safety reasons" because the predicted southerly change hit the region earlier than expected.
"We will work with the contractor to assess the possibility of revisiting the display in the near future," the council said.
Behaviour in the Hunter was similar to that of punters in Sydney, where police on Wednesday commended the majority of people for marking the New Year without incident - only eight from the large crowds of people who celebrated in the state's capital were charged, for offences such as assaulting police, resisting police, assault and offensive behaviour.
Meanwhile, the statewide road crackdown - Operation Safe Arrival - finishes at 11.59pm on Wednesday, ending a period of double demerit penalties that began on December 20.
During the operation, police issued almost 11,000 speeding fines and caught 618 people allegedly drink-driving across NSW.
