Wishing Wall<\/a> \u2014 located on Broadway between West 45th and 47th streets \u2014 received 183,000\u00a0wishes so far as of this week, including ones submitted online.<\/p>\nMany want to enrich their lives, with wishes such as \u201cread lots of books,\u201d \u201chave my dream body\u201d and \u201cfall in love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others have dollar signs in their dreams, and are hoping to purchase \u201ca new car,\u201d \u201ca new house,\u201d \u201ca walk-in closet,\u201d and even \u201ca new pair of glasses.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some submissions \u2014 such as \u201cno more potholes,\u201d \u201cmy fave restaurants stay in business\u201d and \u201cfor 311 to be effective\u201d \u2014 were Big Apple-centric.<\/p>\n
Gymnast Leah Frisbie, 11, revealed her wish to The Post at the wall on Monday \u2014 \u201cto get my aerial.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s basically just a cartwheel, but with no hands,\u201d explained Frisbie, who is from Athens, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
High schooler Alaina Small of Nashua, New Hampshire, also had an athletic goal in mind.<\/p>\n
Leah Frisbie, 11, is striving to achieve a gymnastics feat. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n
Alaina Small, 15, wants to win a basketball championship. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish to win the New Hampshire D1 Basketball Championship,\u201d said Small, a 15-year-old point guard who has been playing basketball since the age of 4.<\/p>\n
The college kids who stopped by jotted down wishes for self care and lasting love.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet skinny,\u201d was University of Alabama student Sawyer Brooks\u2019 wish.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I am more confident in myself when I\u2019m skinnier, and I feel better about myself every day when I wake up,\u201d said Brooks, 21, of Oxford, Alabama.<\/p>\n
University of Alabama student Sawyer Brooks, 21, is hoping to \u201cget skinny.\u201d J.C. Rice<\/p>\n
Emma Kate Sohoski, 21, celebrated her boyfriend with her wish for 2026. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n
Emma Kate Sohoski, 21, a student at Florida Gulf Coast University, was visiting the wall on the 13-month anniversary of dating her boyfriend Caden, and wrote both of their names and a heart on a piece of confetti \u201cso that we can have a happy 2026 together,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Adding to the love in the air in Times Square was a newly engaged couple.<\/p>\n
Jason Hrdina of Raleigh, North Carolina, was visiting with Paige Degner-Williamson \u2014 who he had just proposed to at the Rockefeller Center ice rink.<\/p>\n
Paige Degner-Williamson, top left, wished for a happy future for her new blended family. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n
Hrdina is the father of a 15-year-old daughter, and Degner-Williamson, the mom to 18-year-old and 14 year-old girls; so her wish was to successfully manage their new blended family.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got two in high school and they go to different high schools, so we\u2019re trying to figure it out, who goes where and what do we do,\u201d said Degner-Williamson, 48.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I put, \u2018I wish for a happy family life for the rest of our lives together on Earth.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds flocked to the annual New Year\u2019s Even Wishing Wall in Times Square this week, dreaming of very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[68,15744,969,57,10748,40499,31095,9,56,63,65,64,2027,13942,58],"class_list":["post-82145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-exclusive","tag-happiness","tag-holidays","tag-metro","tag-new-years-eve","tag-new-years-rockin-eve","tag-new-years-day","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-times-square","tag-tourists","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}