Security tight in Times Square for New Year’s Eve

Toshiba Corp. will liven up a global countdown event as the official sponsor for the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration.

Watch the New Year’s Eve Times Square Ball drop via a live video feed on your computer, smartphone, or tablet, or watch the countdown to 2016 on your local ABC or NBC TV station.

Six thousand police officers on foot and horseback will be there to make sure it all goes off without a hitch.

“It hasn’t really sunk in yet”, said Sheppard.

“People should feel safest this New Year’s Eve because we’re there”.

France deployed 11,000 police officers, military personnel and firefighters to Paris, a boost of 2,000 more than last year’s New Year’s Eve security presence. Revelers will be searched and screened with metal detectors before they’re allowed into a cordoned off area, and authorities have banned backpacks and large bags from the event.

One thousand security cameras will help keep an eye on it all.

New York Police Department officers set up barriers to prevent entry to a pen where revelers will wa …

The pair have spent the holiday in NY before but never in Times Square, the Midtown Manhattan crossroads that is a year-round tourist draw, filled with chain stores, family restaurants and flashy advertising displays.

Among the threats Obama was told of was one originating overseas, warning of possible attacks in three major United States cities, New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. “Stuff’s going to happen, so it’s like I mean, I’m pretty sure everybody feel’s safe, can’t live your life in fear”, said Brandon Whitley, who is visiting from New Jersey.

Thanks to Times Square NYC, you can get the full New Year’s Eve Ball drop experience right on your computer, mobile phone or tablet.

More than a million people are expected to crowd into New York City’s Times Square under heavy security on Thursday to celebrate the arrival of 2016 with the traditional dropping of the New Year’s Eve crystal ball.