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  1. Dec 28, 2021 · Workers install 192 new Waterford Crystal triangles featuring this year's 'Gift of Wisdom' design on December 27, 2021 in New York City. The 12-foot in diameter, 11,875 pounds ball is covered in a ...

  2. Dec 29, 2022 · For the past 10 years, Waterford Crystal has designed a new triangle each year under the umbrella of its “Greatest Gift” series. In 2020, the crystals featured pineapples to represent “The ...

  3. Revelers began celebrating New Year's Eve in Times Square as early as 1904, but it was in 1907 that the New Year's Eve Ball made its maiden descent from the flagpole atop One Times Square. Seven versions of the Ball have been designed to signal the New Year. The first New Year's Eve Ball, made of iron and wood and adorned with one hundred 25 ...

  4. Dec 28, 2022 · Published Dec. 28, 2022 Updated Dec. 30, 2022. Crowds will once again gather in Times Square on New Year’s Eve to bring in 2023, peering through more than one ton of confetti to catch a glimpse ...

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  5. New Year’s Eve Ball Design. The Ball is a geodesic sphere, 12 feet in diameter, and weighs 11,875 pounds. The Ball is covered with a total of 2,688 crystal triangles that vary in size, and range in length from 4 3⁄4 inches to 5 3⁄4 inches per side. Each crystal triangle has a special sparkling pattern. 192 crystal triangles are the Gift ...

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  7. Dec 31, 2023 · The New York Times started the modern-day tradition of dropping a ball on a pole to mark the beginning of the new year, the official Times Square website said. Crowds had already been coming to ...