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-as of [18 SEPTEMBER 2024]-
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-the times square ball is a ‘time ball’ located in new york city’s ‘times square’-
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(located on the roof of ‘1 times square’, the ball is a prominent part of a ‘new year’s eve’ celebration in ‘times square’ commonly referred to as the ball drop, where the ball descends 141 feet (43 m) in 60 seconds down a specially designed ‘flagpole’, beginning at 11:59:00 p.m. ET, and resting at ‘midnight’ to signal the start of the ‘new year’)
(in recent years, the festivities have been preceded by ‘live entertainment’, including performances by ‘musicians’)
(the event was first organized by ‘adolph ochs’, (jewish) owner of the new york times newspaper, as a successor to a series of ‘new year’s eve’ fireworks displays he held at the building to promote its status as the new headquarters of the times, while the ball itself was designed by (jewish?) ‘artkraft strauss’)
(first held on ’31 december 1907′ (to welcome ‘1908’), the ‘ball drop’ has been held annually since (except in ‘1942’ and ‘1943’ in observance of ‘wartime blackouts’)
(the ball’s design has been updated over the years to reflect improvements in ‘lighting technology’; the original design was made from ‘wood’ and ‘iron’ and lit with 100 ‘incandescent light bulbs’, while its current incarnation, designed by harlem-based architectural lighting firm ‘focus lighting’, features a ‘computerized LED lighting system’ and an outer surface consisting of ‘triangle-shaped crystal panels’)
(since ‘2009’, the current ball has been displayed atop the building year-round, while the original (+ smaller) version of the current ball that was used in 2008 is on display at times square’s ‘visitor center’)
(the event is organized by the ‘times square alliance’ and ‘countdown entertainment’, a company led by ‘jeff strauss’, and is among the most notable new year’s celebrations internationally: it is attended by at least 90,000 spectators yearly, and is nationally televised as part of ‘new year’s eve’ specials broadcast by a number of ‘networks’ and ‘cable channels’)
(the prevalence of the ‘times square ball drop’ has inspired similar “drops” at other local ‘new year’s eve events’ across the country; while some use ‘balls’, some instead drop objects that represent local ‘culture’ (or ‘history’))
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