Workers installed nearly 300 new crystals Tuesday on the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball. Each triangle is about 5 inches long, 6.8 ounces and less than one-half an inch thick.
New Year’s Eve ball in Time Square: 288 crystals are inscribed with “Hope for Friendship”
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Google Street View of Time Square.
Times Square is the major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City formed by the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.
One Times Square is the home of The New York Times and is the site of the annual ball drop on New Year’s Eve. Times Square is nicknamed “The Crossroads of the World” and “The Great White Way.”
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