"Time-balls" precede the Times Square New Year's Eve tradition. Balls have been "dropped" since at least the 1830s at England’s Royal Observatory at Greenwich, where a ball dropped at a set hour every day for captains to set their navigation tools.

For 122 years, Times Square has been the center of worldwide attention on New Year’s Eve, ever since the owners of One Times Square began in 1904 to conduct rooftop celebrations to greet the New Year. The first Ball Lowering celebration occurred in 1907, and this tradition is now a universal symbol of welcoming the New Year.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are making an announcement marking one year of congestion pricing in New York City Monday. The two are being joined by MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber. The announcement comes as Mamdani has promised to deliver free buses for New York City residents.

There’s no wrong way to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Dinner and drinks with loved ones? Perfect! Counting down from a bar? Love it. But if you’re celebrating NYE from the comfort of your home, Decider’s here to help you make sense of the bevy of New Year’s Eve streaming options.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be publicly sworn into office on Thursday at 1 p.m. MAMDANI BEGINS HIS TERM AS MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), one of Mamdani’s political idols,

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Watch as thousands gather in Times Square for the dropping of the New Year's Eve ball at midnight to ring in 2026!