{"id":85463,"date":"2025-12-31T13:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85463\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:18:14","slug":"1st-times-square-new-years-celebration-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85463\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Times Square New Year\u2019s celebration held\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (WCSC) \u2014 The first Times Square New Year\u2019s celebration took place in 1904, launching a time-honored tradition that continues today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At first, it was a publicity push for the new headquarters of the New York Times, where workers launched a pyrotechnic show from the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fireworks were the big attraction for two more years until 1907 when the paper\u2019s owner commissioned a lit-up iron and wood ball to drop with the countdown to New Year\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"New York City's Broadway looking north from Times Square, as thousand of revelers jammed the...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GLTH2PY64RAR5O3UE3HZFXAALQ.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"761\" \/>New York City&#8217;s Broadway looking north from Times Square, as thousand of revelers jammed the streets to usher in the New Year, Dec. 31, 1930. (AP Photo)(AP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since then, the ceremony has taken place every year except 1942 and 1943, when World War II prohibited excessive lighting in what they called \u201cdimouts\u201d to protect the city from a possible attack. Those years, recordings of bells followed a moment of silence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Times Square ball has evolved over the years, now about 12 feet in diameter, weighing nearly six tons, and covered in more than 32,000 LED lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WCSC) \u2014 The first Times Square New Year\u2019s celebration took place in 1904, launching a time-honored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41117,9,24,55,54,56,2027],"class_list":["post-85463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-years","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-times-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85463","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=85463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}