A New Year's Eve ball was first dropped in Times Square in 1907. Built by a young immigrant metalworker named Jacob Starr, ...

Times Square's biggest tourist draw is the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. Revelers crowd the area to see New York's famous Waterford crystal ball descend 77 feet from a pole on the One Times ...

It would drop over Times Square for the first time on New ... and 32,256 LED lights. It's the largest crystal ball in the world. It can produce 16 million colors and billions of patterns.

An curved arrow pointing right. The dropping of the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square has been a tradition for over 100 years. We spoke with the agent for the ball itself, Jeffrey Straus ...