Times Square revelers celebrate 2017’s arrival in New York City

The Times Square New Year’s Eve Waterford crystal ball features 2,688 crystals and weighs nearly 12,000 pounds.

In Key West, Florida, four different things – including two humans – are lowered to welcome the new year.

In New York, signs of enhanced security ahead of the city’s huge New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square.

Officials believe as many a million people will descend upon Times Square to bring in the New Year.

“So in addition to all of the officers you’re going to see in Times Square, throughout the city, you’ll be able to find an officer”, Monahan said. You can even make use of the app to follow and interact with the Times Square Ball over Twitter, now how about that for being connected? Placed in strategic positions, the “blockers” are meant to prevent a repetition of the truck attacks in Berlin and Nice earlier this year, officials said.

ABC’s Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve will have Ryan Seacrest kicking off the show at 8 pm. There will be about 7,000 police officers in the area, including counter-terrorism squads, additional long gun teams, and undercover officers-about a thousand more than previous year. The remaining 1,824 crystal triangles are the Gift of Imagination design with a series of intricate wedge cuts that are mirrored reflections of each other inspiring our imagination.

The New York Police Department Police said that they vow Times Square will be the safest place for the ball drop.

“We actually don’t have a lot of time before folks want traffic back flowing”, she said.

“It’s New York City police officers”, O’Neill said. It’s now covered in more than 2,500 Waterford crystals and is illuminated by more than 32,000 LED lights. The ball was made of iron and wood and decorated with 100 25-watt lightbulbs, which is honestly kind of amusing to imagine.

“They’ve been a doing all their checks; making sure that the people are screened correctly, and I think it’s awesome”.