The rain stopped about a half-hour before the 11,875-pound ball, covered with 2,688 crystal triangles and 32,256 LEDs, dropped from One Times Square — a tradition dating back to 1907.

the New York Times moved its headquarters to the new Times Building (now known as One Times Square). The paper's owner, Adolph Ochs, successfully lobbied the city to rename the area, previously ...

The retiree was the ball that fell in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. It was decommissioned after a final descent at One Times Square, having resided there since just before New Year’s Eve 2008.

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 ...

Rapper Pitbull and inventor Joy Mangano were among those on hand to help the organizers of the celebration put the final pieces in place atop One Times Square, the skyscraper from which the 11,875 ...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- The iconic Times Square New Year's Eve Ball is officially retiring. The ball will drop one last time on Wednesday, January 15 at 3 p.m. at One Times Square.