NEW YORK: Workers installed 192 glittering Waterford crystal triangles on Times Squares New Years Eve ball Sunday in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration that will lack the usual tightly packed crowds of revelers.
The ball is a 12-foot geodesic sphere covered with 2,688 crystal triangles of various sizes. Some new crystals are swapped in every year. This years addition features a new Gift of Happiness design represented by a sunburst of bright cuts radiating outward.
The ball blazing with 32,256 LED lights will be dropped at 11:59 p.m. on New Years Eve to ring in 2021. Performances at the event will be designed for TV audiences watching from home.
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