NEW YORK (AP) — Workers installed 192 glittering Waterford crystal triangles on Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball Sunday in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration that will lack the usual tightly packed crowds of revelers.
The ball is a 12-foot geodesic sphere covered with 2,688 crystal triangles of various sizes. Some new crystals are swapped in every year. This year’s addition features a new “Gift of Happiness” design represented by a sunburst of bright cuts radiating outward.
The ball blazing with 32,256 LED lights will be dropped at 11:59 p.m. on New Year’s Eve to ring in 2021. Performances at the event will be designed for TV audiences watching from home.
A view of the the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball, a 12ft diameter, 11,875lbs geodesic sphere covered in Waterford crystal triangles, New York, NY, December 27, 2020.
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Landmark electricians Chris Sisti and Nick Bonavita demonstrate the installation of one of 192 Waterford crystals into a panel that will be placed on the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball, New York, NY, December 27, 2020.
Photo credit Anthony Behar/Sipa USA
Landmark electricians Chris Sisti and Nick Bonavita demonstrate the installation of a Waterford crystal panel onto the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball, New York, NY, December 27, 2020.
Photo credit Anthony Behar/Sipa USA
Landmark electricians Chris Sisti holds up one of 192 Waterford crystals triangles that will be placed onto a panel that will be added to the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball, New York, NY, December 27, 2020.
Photo credit Anthony Behar/Sipa USA
A view of the the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball, a 12ft diameter, 11,875lbs geodesic sphere covered in Waterford crystal triangles, New York, NY, December 27, 2020.
Photo credit Anthony Behar/Sipa USA
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