Hundreds of thousands of merrymakers witnessed the descent of the kaleidoscopic New Year’s Eve ball in Times Square at midnight on Sunday, celebrating a century-old New York tradition under an unprecedented umbrella of security.
As many as 2 million people, surrounded by a ring of 40-ton sand trucks and some 7,000 police, gathered in the ‘Crossroads of the World’ to watch the glittering sphere complete its minute-long drop, marking the beginning of 2017.
