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The New York New Year's Eve tradition of the Ball drop, which goes back more than a century, was conceived by an immigrant tycoon who wanted to celebrate his accomplishments and the city itself.

LIVE STREAM: 2021 New Year’s Eve Times Square Ball Drop virtual event How and where to watch annual Time Square Ball Drop Published:  Tags:  A member of the media films workers installing a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Years Eve ball, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) NEW YORK – It’s a New Year’s Eve tradition in New York -- the annual Time Square Ball Drop. Here’s...

Home is where the heart is, as we shut out the dark this New Year The impatient could not resist setting off a few rockets as darkness fell. Each pop in the sky felt like a gesture of bloody-minded defiance A woman takes a selfie during New Year celebrations in Melbourne, Australia Credit: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images On New Year’s Eve 1899, as “spectre-grey frost” turned all around him to desolation and confined humanity to the sanctuary of indoors, the writer Thomas Hardy famously foun...

And guess what? this year you can actually follow it on the time square ball app for your mobile device. >> you hear the big news? we have a time square ball app. it actually talks, you go to timesquareball.net, and you can see the event live wherever you are, whether youre at a bar, party, or home. >> reporter: thats timesquareball.net. and boy, this celebration has come a long way. do now know only 16 years ago they actually manually pulled that ball down. six guys on top of one time square ma...