New Year's Eve Around the World

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New York

Times Square first became a fathering place for New Year's Eve in 1904 to commemorate the opening of the New York Times headquarters.  Today, nearly 1 million people converge on the city's center to watch the infamous New Year's Eve Ball drop down Times Sqaure's 77-foot flag pole.  It starts its decent at 1 minute until midnight and, when it has dropped, two tons of confetti are released on the crowd below.  The confetti will include messages from people around the work—hopes, dreams, goals—that have been left on the New Year's Eve Wishing Wall at the Times Square Information Center.  If you aren't able to join the revelers, leave a message online and you can watch your message flutter down on all those in Times Square on New Year's Eve!