NEW YORK—A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve was intent on committing a jihad against government officials and shouted “Allahu akbar” before striking one officer in the head and attempting to grab another officer’s gun, prosecutors said Wednesday. Trevor Bickford, who was shot by […]
On New Year’s Eve, over a billion people are expected to tune in to watch the crystal ball drop in New York City. The president of Countdown Entertainment, Jeffrey Straus, shared details of this year’s New Year’s Eve celebration.
Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration co-organizers test the dropping ball at 10:30 a.m. ET on Dec. 30. They will light up the ball and send it to the 130-foot pole on top of the One Times Square building in New York. The event co-organizers will flip a giant switch to initiate the ball’s kaleidoscope […]
NEW YORK—Nearly 200 new Waterford crystals were installed on the New Year’s Eve ball in Times Square in New York on Tuesday in preparation for Saturday’s celebration to welcome in 2023. Since 1999, replacements for the 2,688 crystal panels that make up the ball have been designed and made by hand by Irish craftsmen at […]
In the heart of New York City’s Times Square, you will find some of the world’s most iconic digital screens. Times Square gets an estimated 50 million visitors each year. The holiday season and New Year’s is possibly the best and most expensive time to utilize ad space in Times Square.
On Sunday morning, a puffy, Michelin Man-like figure trudged through Times Square in New York, panting from the exertion of trying to move while wearing 27 hazmat suits. Inside the white cocoon was Zhisheng Wu, a Chinese artist who staged the street performance to criticize China’s unrelenting zero-COVID policy. “Protective suits have become a visual […]
NEW YORK—After Richard Rojas was kicked out of the Navy, he began sharing disturbing thoughts that were coursing through his head—that cars were following him, that aircraft were dusting him with chemicals, that his meals were poisoned. An uncle, Ramon Reyes, said Rojas offered a self-diagnosis: “You know that I’m crazy. And they’re not giving […]
