In 1920, the original was swapped out for a new 400-pound ball made solely of wrought iron. It was dropped every year for three and a half decades, excluding 1942 and 1943, when there was a ...

The inaugural New Year's Eve ball drop took place in 1907 It's almost time to ring in the new year! Every Dec. 31, roughly 1 million people gather in New York City to witness the ball — an ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The New Year's Eve ball drop started over 100 years ago. Based on a 19th-century maritime tradition, "time balls" were once dropped down poles in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The dropping of the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square has been a tradition for over 100 years. We spoke with the agent for the ball itself, Jeffrey Straus ...

[Dino] wanted to make this New Year’s celebration a bit more interesting, but he can’t make it to New York for the ball drop. Instead, he decided to make his own mini display in his workshop.