With less than a week remaining to the new year, rapper Pitbull helped unveil Times Square's iconic New Year's Eve ball on Friday. The Waterford Crystal ball is a geodesic sphere covered with ...

A New Year's Eve ball was first dropped in Times Square in 1907. Built by a young immigrant metalworker named Jacob Starr, the 700-pound (318-kilogram), 5-foot (1.52-meter) diameter ball was made ...

The timeless Times Square treasure made its ... the New Year's ball underwent another transformation, adding its now-signature crystal triangles that would be illuminated with thousands of ...

NEW YORK — The last of the crystal triangles that make up this year's Times Square New Year's Eve ball were installed on Friday morning, marking the first time in 10 years that all 2,688 were ...

Ahead of the year 2000, the Times Square ball was completely transformed and redesigned using crystal. To celebrate the turn of the millennium, the ball was redesigned by Waterford Crystal.

But the Big Apple's big crystal ball has managed to stay at the center of it all. Here's a look at how the spectacle came about and how it's evolved over the years. A scene of Times Square circa ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The last of the crystal triangles that make up this year’s Times Square New Year’s Eve ball were installed on Friday morning, marking the first time in 10 years that all ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The last of the crystal triangles that make up this year’s Times Square New Year’s Eve ball were installed on Friday morning, marking the first time in 10 years that all 2,688 were ...