Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Livestream 2015

This year’s Times Square ball will feature an wonderful array of 2,688 pieces of crystal triangles, which should ensure a light spectacle for millions at the event and watching live on TV around the world.

“The eyes of the world will be on us”, he said earlier this week.

There is no specific threat in London, U.K. either, but out of an abundance of caution, police are expected to double the number of officers on patrol for New Year’s Eve.

At midnight, the ball drops in Times Square for New Year’s Eve and we move from 2015 into 2016.

The New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have unveiled security plans, including a series of multilayered checkpoints.

The ball has dropped from that tower, now owned by Jamestown Properties, every year since (except for 1942 and 1943 due to a wartime “dimout”).

“Rockin’ Eve’s” total was far ahead of the 5.4 million who turned out for its main rival, “New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly ” on NBC (Daly logged 8.6 million for the late-night portion). About 60,000 police and troops will be deployed across the country on Thursday.

An NYPD spokesman says the department doesn’t discuss details of its antiterrorism procedures to avoid helping terror groups plan attacks.

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.

“The usual elements of a highly visible police deployment will include thousands of uniformed police officers at the street level and also in the subways, in the air above and on the waterways all around New York City”, O’Neill said. “We are not aware of any threat we deem credible”, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said.

Afterwards, Rochester, about 330 miles (530 km) northwest of New York City, canceled its New Year’s Eve fireworks display.

“It could happen anywhere, but you can’t start the world panicking”, he said as a recording of the James Brown song “Living in America” blared from the stage.

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