Every year as the clock
nears midnight on December 31st, the eyes of the world turn once more to the
amazing lights and awesome energy of Times Square. New Year’s Eve at the centre
of New York City has become a global tradition.
The world holds its breath…and
cheers as the clocks strike twelve. As the famous New Year’s Eve Ball descends
from the top of One Times Square, an estimated one million people in Times
Square, millions nationwide and over a billion watching throughout the world
are united in a collective farewell to the old year, and expressing the joy and
hope for next year.
In this celebration there
are musical performances, balloons, handouts, confetti, colourful fireworks and
more surprises. Also, each year people from around the globe include their
wishes for the new year on pieces of official Times Square New Year’s Eve
confetti. Whether it’s a personal goal, a dream for the future or doing
something for the very first time, these wishes are added to the one ton of
confetti that flies at midnight onto the crowd in Times Square in celebration
of the new year.
This especial celebration started in 1904 when NYC was a city on the
point of significant changes. Two important innovations that would completely
transform the Crossroads of the World started: the opening of the city’s first
subway line and the first celebration of New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
Two years after the first
celebration, the city prohibited the fireworks display. However, it was
arranged to have a large illuminated seven-hundred-pound iron and wood ball
lowered from the tower precisely at midnight to signal the end of one year and
the beginning of the other.
Today, New Year’s Eve in
Times Square is an international phenomenon. Each year, hundreds of thousands
of people are around the Tower called One Times Square and wait for hours in
the cold weather of a New York winter for the worldwide famous Ball-lowering
ceremony.
No matter where you are or
from where you are:
BEST WISHES!!!!!
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