The first Times Square ball drop was a rousing, if messy, success. Crowds “began pouring” out of the subway station the night of December 31, the Times wrote, reporting, perhaps with ...

The event was first organized by the owner of The New ... originally made in 2007 for the 100th anniversary of the Times Square Ball Drop. The ball descends from One Times Square as a countless ...

were used to create a lighted time ball. It would drop over Times Square for the first time on New Year's Eve 1907. That first ball was six feet in diameter, made of iron and wood, weighed 700 ...

Arguably, today's most famous New Year's Eve ball drop is the 12-foot, 11,875-pound geodesic sphere that falls in New York City's Times Square, but there are dozens of rival celebrations coast to ...

and climbed to the top of One Times Square to find out why millions join together on December 31st to watch a lighted ball drop down a pole. Produced by Justin Gmoser and Arielle Berger.

The ball drop in Times Square is as close to a national celebration as the U.S. has, and this year will be a completely different experience. This Waterford crystal ball will still come down at ...