Workers installed 192 glittering Waterford crystal triangles on Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball Sunday in preparation for a pandemic-restricted 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 different sizes. Some new crystals are swapped in each and every year. This year’s addition functions a new “Gift of Happiness” style represented by a sunburst of vibrant cuts radiating outward.
The ball blazing with 32,256 LED lights will be dropped at 11:59 p.m. on New Year’s Eve to ring in 2021. Performances at the occasion will be made for Television audiences watching from household.