• Workers from Landmark Signs install a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
    Workers from Landmark Signs install a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
  • Workers from Landmark Signs install a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
    Workers from Landmark Signs install a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
  • A worker holds one of the 192 Waterford crystal triangles with a new sunburst design, called the 'Gift of Happiness', that will be placed on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
    A worker holds one of the 192 Waterford crystal triangles with a new sunburst design, called the 'Gift of Happiness', that will be placed on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
  • Workers install a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration. AP
    Workers install a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration. AP
  • This year's celebration will welcome smaller crowds. AP
    This year's celebration will welcome smaller crowds. AP
  • A worker holds one of the 192 Waterford crystal triangles that will be placed on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
    A worker holds one of the 192 Waterford crystal triangles that will be placed on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
  • The Times Square New Year's Eve ball that will drop to ring in 2021 in New York City. AP
    The Times Square New Year's Eve ball that will drop to ring in 2021 in New York City. AP
  • Workers secure a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
    Workers secure a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
  • Workers from Landmark Signs carefully carry a panel of Waterford crystal triangles to place on to the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
    Workers from Landmark Signs carefully carry a panel of Waterford crystal triangles to place on to the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
  • A worker from Landmark Signs holds one of the 192 Waterford crystal triangles in a sunburst design that will be added to glass triangles already on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
    A worker from Landmark Signs holds one of the 192 Waterford crystal triangles in a sunburst design that will be added to glass triangles already on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. AP
  • Workers install 192 new 'Gift of Happiness' Waterford Crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball. Getty Images / AFP
    Workers install 192 new 'Gift of Happiness' Waterford Crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball. Getty Images / AFP
  • A sign showing '2021' will be used in the upcoming New Year's Eve festivities in New York's Times Square. AP
    A sign showing '2021' will be used in the upcoming New Year's Eve festivities in New York's Times Square. AP

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'Gift of Happiness': Workers install 192 crystal triangles on Times Square New Year’s ball

The celebration to ring in the new year will be limited due to the pandemic

Associated Press

December 28, 2020

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Workers installed 192 glittering Waterford crystal triangles on Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball on Sunday, in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration that will lack the usual tightly packed crowds of revellers.

The ball, located in New York City, US, is a 12-foot geodesic sphere covered with 2,688 crystal triangles of various sizes. Some new crystals are swapped in every year.

This year’s 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 11.59pm on New Year’s Eve to ring in 2021.

Performances at the event will be designed for TV audiences watching from home.