Final preps underway for New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square Roughly 1 million people will pack themselves into Times Square on New Year's Eve, and officials want to ensure they have a fun ...

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 ...

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.

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