At 11:59 p.m., the sphere will begin to descend, as it has since it debuted in 1907.
The tourist sector of the popular Plaza de Times Square se prepara, as is already the tradition, to welcome the new year, which this time will be “decaffeinated” by the strict rules that have been imposed before the rebound of coronavirus and that it will limit the event to just 15,000 people at the venue.
A few days before receiving 2022, the Times Square Alliance, which centralizes this business and theater sector and organizes this celebration, puts the final touches on the famous crystal ball that descends every year to mark the beginning of a new year in the Great Apple.
The public and the New York press witnessed this Monday a group of workers installing some of the glass triangles, which vary in size, from the 2,668 that make up the 12,000-pound (5,443 kilos) sphere and illuminated by 32,256 red and blue led bulbs. , green and white that form a palette of thousands of tones and weighs 5,386 kilograms.
At 11:59 p.m. the sphere will begin to descend, as it has done since it debuted in 1907, with the count of the public and the millions of people who from different countries follow this celebration in New York.
Trucks of various companies have already settled around Times Square for the live broadcast of the show, while hundreds of people, many of them tourists, walked from one side to another like ants, taking photos or stopped to look at the gigantic advertising screens, under the surveillance of the Police.
However, the assistants from different countries, cultures or languages shared the same emotion, which they did not hide, when walking calmly, accompanied by their families or alone, through the sector where Police security fences have already been installed.
“People have come from all over the world, but less than other years due to the covid“Commented a Times Square worker, who for ten years has distributed information about the tour buses while around him the” Hulk “,” Minnie Mouse “and other famous Times Square characters, who were joined by Santa Claus, are they took photos with visitors.
As every year, visitors to Times Square stopped to write what they expected of the new year, papers that will later come down like confetti to close the celebration in Times Square and that mostly wanted health, money and love by 2022.
“Find my partner for life”, “Health for all my family”, “Health and love”, “Do what makes me happy”, “Love me again”, “Stay with my partner”, “Open doors to my dreams “and even” a Golden Retriever “have been on the wish list of the public who visit the booth, about a thousand a day, since it began on December 1.
Some who were visiting New York for the first time claimed that it is “exciting” to walk through Times Square and welcome 2022 in this city.
This celebration dates back to 1904, when the then editor of The New York Times newspaper, Adolph Ochs, wanted to organize a fireworks display on the roof of the newspaper on New Year’s Eve to mark the move of the medium to its new offices, planned for a day after.
However, it was not until three years later that the mythical ball made its appearance, which then weighed 317 kilograms, had a diameter of one and a half meters and had a hundred white bulbs attached.
Since then, it has been molded over the years with different materials and lighting, until it reached its current appearance in 2007. (I)
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