Cleanup underway in Times Square after New Year’s Eve celebration

Throngs of people began streaming into the area early in the day, spending hours outdoors even before official festivities began with the lighting of the ball at 6 p.m. Whether you are at home, at a NYE party, or traveling during the final seconds of 2015, you won’t have to miss the big “3-2-1 Happy New Year” moment thanks to live streams, free apps and good old-fashioned New Year’s Eve TV shows. This year’s festivities will also be attended by almost 6,000 New York City police officers, including members of a specialized counterterrorism unit.

Bratton noted that the terrorism threat had evolved in the past two years but said there is no credible threat against New York City for New Year’s Eve.

“I love Times Square, all the lights and stuff like that”.

They also will patrol the Times Square subway station, and certain exits will be blocked off. The NYPD will rely on a network of thousands of closed-circuit security cameras blanketing lower Manhattan, parts of midtown Manhattan and the subway system.

“This is the centre of the world on New Year’s Eve”, said Rick Milley, 60, who travelled from Boston with his wife, Debbie, 59, to ring in the new year in Times Square.

Here’s something very important you should know: There are NO portable restrooms in the area during the New Year’s Eve celebration!

Revellers in New York City weren’t deterred by threats of terrorism.

Almost 1,000 uniformed officers and an undisclosed number of undercover officers will be posted along the popular 4-mile-long, casino-filled corridor.

Cynthia Falu, from Dover, Del., celebrates New Year’s Eve at noon with her children in Times Square in New York, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. That case prompted the city to cancel its New Year’s Eve fireworks celebration. “You can’t live your life in fear”. That year, an “electrically illuminated ball” dropped above the One Times Square, which The Times then owned, for the first time. “I’m not going to miss out on an opportunity”.

“He really is the flawless foil for me because there’s so many things he can’t say”, Griffin says of Cooper.

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