The first Times Square ball drop was a rousing ... inspiration for the Times Tower in a ball atop the Western Union Building in Manhattan’s Financial District that dropped every day at noon ...

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.

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 ...

Times Square's biggest tourist draw is the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. Revelers crowd the area ... 77 feet from a pole on the One Times Square building. If you're feeling brave, take a ...

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.

[Dino] wanted to make this New Year’s celebration a bit more interesting, but he can’t make it to New York for the ball drop ... budget than the folks at Times Square, but we think his ...