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 ...

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 ...

“If you would have said 20 years ago ... the Ellery was built did not serve the area’s highest and best use, Schwartz said. Similarly, before Apollo, SL Green and RXR filed for the partial residential ...