When midnight approaches on December 31st, spectators around the area wait for the dazzling New Year's Eve Ball to go down from the top of the flagpole in the One Times Square.
This most lauded tradition of lowering the ball in Times Square has been done 105 times since 1907 with the exceptions of the years 1942 and 1943 due to the "dim out" lighting restrictions in New York City during World War II.
The huge size of the ball today, which now weighs 11,875 pounds, has a very staggering difference from the first ball of 1907 which weighed only 700 pounds. The ball has also grown to 12 feet in diameter compared to the five feet diameter in 1907.
Today's ball has about 2,688 in numbers of handmade Waterford crystals from Ireland.
It has 32,256 Philips Luxeon LEDS that can create billions of kaleidoscopic patterns and more than 16 million colors.
50,000 watts of electricity light up the ball, but not as much as the 161 megawatts used to light up Times Square.
There are 360,000 pedestrian visitors to the square in just a day; while 500,000 spectators came to see the ball drop in 1998.
A one million estimated number of people were expected to pack the streets of Times Square for the New Year's celebration of 2016, as reported by 6sqft news.
One billion people watched the ball drop from their TV screens from around the world, wherein a hundred million of the viewers were in the U.S.
The 178 sanitation workers, 23 mechanical sweepers, 25 collection trucks and 38 leaf blowers were employed to clean up about 48 tons of trash after the New Year's Eve celebration.
IBTimes news reported that during the festivities, the New York Police Department (NYPD) urged people to take public transportation due to parking restrictions and some street closures.
Parking has been restricted through a number of streets from 12:01 am EST on the 31st of December to 1 am on the 1st of January.
