N EW YEAR’S EVE BALL TEST: The iconic Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball was illuminated and raised up the 139-foot pole in New York City on Monday (12/30). The test was part of the final ...

Come New Year's Eve, all eyes will be on the crystal ball in Times Square. And this year, one local company will have some bragging rights as we count down to 2025. Gillinder Glass usually makes ...

NEW YORK (CNN)-- New York celebrates the centennial of its most famous New Year's tradition Monday, as organizers of the Times Square ball drop have given the crystal globe an environmental makeover.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The New Year's Eve ball drop started over 100 years ago. Based on a 19th-century maritime tradition, "time balls" were once dropped down poles in ...

[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. Instead, he decided to make his own mini display in his workshop.

Getty So you don't drop the ball on New Year's Eve ... nowhere I’d rather be at midnight than New York’s Times Square!” “Spending new years with my dear friend Anderson is my idea ...