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 ...

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 ...

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 originally made in 2007 for the 100th anniversary of the Times Square Ball Drop.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 ...

The puzzlement I felt while asking myself why in God’s name go through the hassle of setting up in Times Square, one of the five most alive public spaces in the world, only to put walls up ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — The idea of going to Times Square under ordinary circumstances ... Why wasn’t Garcia rematching Haney in the first place? It was through that rivalry’s saga that all of this ...