While the rest of the world was blaring the music and getting amp'd for Friday night party about 1000 New Yorkers were quietening down for a silent rave in Union Square.

At 6:17pm, tons of high school and college students flooded the park with iPods in hand for the city's first public silent rave.

The event was organized by a British exchange student named Jonnie Wesson who says silent raves are especially popular in London and across Europe.

“The basic premise is that a hundred or a thousand or a few thousand people all turn up in a public place, turn on their own headphones and dance," he told the NY Times.

“It’s always fantastic and weird to see thousands of people dancing silently. It’s always in a public space, but it’s not meant to cause disruption, but only because it’s the last place you’d expect that sort of thing," he added.

No drugs, no loud music. It sounds like the perfect party for a retirement home, huh? But from the looks of this video, they were having a blast!