New Year’s Eve Countdown to 2025 – NBC New York

New Year’s Eve Countdown to 2025 – NBC New York

Thousands of people will crowd Times Square in New York City to watch the ball drop on New Year’s Eve. Luckily, revelers don’t have to brave the Manhattan crowds to witness this iconic moment. The ball toss will be featured on several New Year’s Eve shows and programs and will be livestreamed.

Here’s a way to watch the Times Square Ball Drop and New Year’s Eve countdown

News 4’s Marc Santia reports on the final countdown to 2025 as New York welcomes the new year.

NBC New York’s Times Square live stream

NBC New York will broadcast the Times Square celebrations live on its streaming channel. Coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. ET and lasts until 1:00 a.m. ET.

It’s a live, uninterrupted broadcast with music, so you can watch continuously until the teams start cleaning up.

You can watch it for free in the player below.

Watch the final one-minute countdown to New Year’s Day 2025 from Times Square as the ball drops on New Year’s Eve.

Things to know about the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop

To impress your guests, here are some interesting facts about the famous New Year’s Eve tradition, according to the official Times Square website.

  • The ball is 12 feet in diameter and weighs 11,875 pounds.
  • It is covered in more than 2,600 crystal triangles, with each sparkling pattern representing a different virtue: love, wisdom, happiness, benevolence, harmony, serenity, kindness, wonder, strength and imagination.
  • The New Year’s Eve Ball was first held in 1907 and welcomed the year 1908, although the celebrations in Times Square began at least three years earlier.
  • The first ball was made of iron, wood and light bulbs.
  • The ball has been lowered every year since, with the exception of 1942 and 1943, during New York City’s wartime “dimout,” a method of defense during World War II.
  • “Time Balls” precede the New Year’s Eve tradition in Times Square. Balls have been “dropped” since at least the 1830s at England’s Royal Observatory at Greenwich, where a ball was dropped each day at a set hour so that captains could adjust their navigational instruments.

TODAY’s Maddie Ellis contributed to this story.

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