This New Year’s Eve, the nearly 6-ton ball - 12 feet in diameter and outfitted with 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles and 32,256 light-emitting diodes - is scheduled to descend from atop the 26-story One Times Square building starting 60 seconds before midnight local time. The first ball-lowering ceremony in Times Square took place in 1907. This year marks the 118th celebration of New Year’s Eve in Times Square, which began when the owners of One Times Square in 1904 held their first rooftop celebration to ring in the New Year. The annual event is co-organized by the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment. With VNYE, users can virtually explore Times Square sights, play games and livestream New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square and around the world. The Times Square livestream also will be available in the free VNYE app ( ) from Jamestown, the real-estate company that owns One Times Square. Bennett will be joined by co-host Jeremy Hassell, who has been a part of the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration since 2016. Returning as the livestream’s host is actor and TV personality Jonathan Bennett (“Mean Girls,” Hallmark’s “The Holiday Sitter,” Food Network’s “Cake Wars”). ET with the lighting and raising of the New Year’s Eve Ball at the top of One Times Square. That will include ABC’s “ Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” (set to feature live performances by Duran Duran, Jax, J-Hope and New Edition), CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen” (featuring Ava Max) and Univision’s “¡Feliz 2023!” (featuring Sech and Osmani Garcia). On traditional TV, Times Square also will be a central locale as part of the slate of programming airing on ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN.
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