Live Video: New Year’s Eve in Times Square

At midnight, revelers in Times Square will blow on ear-shattering noisemakers, and kiss and hug one another amid blinking lights and a blanket of fluttering confetti.

The tradition began the same year that the first subway line opened, when The New York Times’s publisher celebrated the new headquarters in the recently renamed Times Square with a noted concert band and a bombastic fireworks display that lit the sky for miles.

“No more beautiful picture was ever limned in fire on the curtain of midnight,” the newspaper humbly reported on Jan. 1, 1905.  Read More at  NYTimes

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