{"id":475080,"date":"2025-12-27T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475080\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T14:01:11","slug":"new-years-eve-bash-in-times-square-will-feature-second-ball-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475080\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve bash in Times Square will feature second ball drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"apk1n\">For the first time in the tradition\u2019s 120-year history, the Times Square ball will drop twice this New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"83n1n\">The first drop will be at midnight, as usual, to ring in 2026. Drop number two will take place at 12:04 a.m. to honor America\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2pmdf\">For the second drop, <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/times-square-unveils-largest-ever-new-years-eve-ball-with-circular-crystals\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Constellation Ball<\/a> \u2013 the brand new, 12,350-pound, Waterford crystal and LED puck-covered Times Square Ball \u2013 will shift to red, white and blue, and will bear the number 250.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"19oit\">It will be accompanied by \u201cliterally several tons of red, white and blue confetti,\u201d said Rosie Rios, Chair of America250, in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4hmda\">America250 is a nonpartisan group that Congress has tasked with leading the nation\u2019s 250th birthday celebration next year.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4v2pl\">\u201cThis is seven years in the making,\u201d Rios added, explaining that America250 partnered with One Times Square and the Times Square Alliance soon after its formation.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"51na2\">In addition to the bonus ball drop next week, America250 is also bringing the ball back to Times Square for a Fourth of July ball drop.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5ambo\">\u201cThe Fourth of July countdown moment will anchor America250\u2019s nationwide Independence Day celebrations and reinforce New York City\u2019s central role in the nation\u2019s semiquincentennial,\u201d organizers say in a <a href=\"https:\/\/america250.org\/news\/america250-announces-celebration-of-america-turning-250-on-new-years-eve-in-times-square\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ccds1\">The July event will also represent another first in the tradition\u2019s history. It will be the first time \u201cin over a century of the ball drop in Times Square where they\u2019re going to do one outside of New Year\u2019s Eve,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in the tradition\u2019s 120-year history, the Times Square ball will drop twice this New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-475080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115791900373509962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}