Lightbulbs, a new technology at the time, 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 ...

According to The New Yorker, The New York Times constructed the building at One Times Square as its ... up with the idea to drop a lighted ball from the top of the tower instead.

Times Square's biggest tourist draw is the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. Revelers crowd the area to see New York's famous Waterford crystal ball descend 77 feet from a pole on the One Times ...

[Dino] wanted to make this New Year’s celebration a bit more interesting, but he can’t make it to New York for the ball drop ... budget than the folks at Times Square, but we think his ...

NEW YORK -- An estimated 1 million people packed Times Square to watch the New Year's Eve 2025 ball drop Tuesday night. A Times Square Alliance live feed kicked off the coverage from the ...