The ball drop in Times Square has a rich history behind it. Each New Year’s Eve, a sea of people gather in New York City to watch the iconic ball drop from the top of One Times Square.

The Times Square ball drop has been a tradition for over ... But the ball itself has changed dramatically over its 113-year history. It once weighed a mere 150 pounds, but now clocks in at an ...

At the time, the innovative ball was the most technologically advanced in the tradition's history. For the centennial anniversary of the Times Square ball drop, Waterford Crystal and Philips ...

Last year, The New Yorker released a fantastic video tour of the building that houses the New Year's Eve Ball in New York City. While it's located in Times Square at the so-called "center of ...

Before tonight's ball drop in New York's Times Square rings in 2024 on the East Coast, revelers can spend the waning hours of New Year's Eve watching performers celebrate the beginning of the new ...

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 ...