Ryan Janek Wolowski celebrating Lunar New Year / Chinese New Year 2017 year of the rooster (zodiac) at the Times Square New Year's Eve midnight Waterford Crystal ball drop in New York City USA 2016 - 2017

            Times Square New Years Eve Ball Drop in New York City 2016 - 2017

New Year’s Eve Ball History
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907. This proud tradition is now a universal symbol of the New Year. The New Year’s Eve Ball is the property of the building owners of One Times Square. The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904.

The Ball is covered with a total of 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles. The House of Waterford Crystal factory is located in Waterford, The Republic of Ireland

The Ball is 12 feet in diameter, and weighs 11,875 pounds.

As the famous New Year's Eve Ball descends atop One Times Square, an estimated one million people in Times Square, millions nationwide and over a billion watching throughout the world are united in bidding a collective farewell to the departing year, and expressing joy and hope for the year ahead.

“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” 

Performers of the 2016 - 2017
celebration 

Event Host Allison Hagendorf (Live Announcer of the MTV Video Music Awards VMA's and MTV Movie Awards)

The Sino-American Friendship Association (“SAFA”) presents a spectacular Chinese cultural performance

Hourly Countdown with Anderson Cooper

Univision’s “¡Feliz 2017!: Performance by Luis Coronel (Luis Miguel Coronel Gámez) regional Mexican singer

Jojo Abot

Rachel Platten

Gloria Estefan - Cuba Latin Pop singer

The USO Show Troupe Performance

Waterford Crystal Toast

Gavin Degraw

DNCE with Joe Jonas from the Jonas Brothers 

Univision’s “¡Feliz 2017!: Performance by Lupillo Rivera (Guadalupe Rivera Saavedra) Regional Mexican singer from Jalisco México

Thomas Rhett

Silentó

Univision’s ¡Feliz 2017!: Performance by Don Omar aka El Rey (William Omar Landrón Rivera) Puerto Rican Reggaeton singer from Carolina, Puerto Rico
Performing medley of Danza Kuduro, Zumba, Hasta Que Salga El Sol and Te Quiero Pa´ Mi on the Planet Fitness Stage.

First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama Video Message

Mariah Carey 
performing medley of Auld Lang Syne, Emotions and We Belong Together on the Countdown Stage.

Rachel Platten performs John Lennon’s Imagine 

11:59 p.m.
The Sixty-Second Countdown
The Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio joined by Times Square 2017 Special Guest United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon push the Waterford crystal button that signals the descent of the New Year’s Eve Ball, and lead the final sixty-second countdown to the New Year on the Countdown Stage.
The Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball
 
The lighted Ball descends 70 feet in sixty seconds. The Ball is a geodesic sphere, twelve feet in diameter, weighing 11,875 pounds. The Ball is covered with 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles and lit by 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs.
 
12:00 a.m. -- New Year's Day  
2017 Sign
At the stroke of Midnight, the lights on the New Year’s Eve Ball are turned off as the numerals of the New Year “2017” burst to life shining high above Times Square.   

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!

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Time Square Theater District, Manhattan Island, New York City, New York State, The United States of America USA, North America continent
12-31-2016
01-01-2017

Taken in: United States / New York / New York / Garment District (show map)

Taken on: December 31, 2016

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