New Year's Eve revelers pack NYC's Times Square under tight security
- 8 years ago
More than a million people are expected to crowd into New York City's Times Square under heavy security on Thursday to celebrate the arrival of 2016 with the traditional dropping of the New Year's Eve crystal ball.
With memories of the deadly attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, still fresh, police took extraordinary measures to assure security at an event that has come to define the New York experience for many visitors to the United States' largest city.
The pair have spent the holiday in New York before but never in Times Square, the Midtown Manhattan crossroads that is a year-round tourist draw, filled with chain stores, family restaurants and flashy advertising displays.
In the hours before the ball drops from the top of a narrow wedge of a building at the southern end of the square, revelers will be entertained by musicians such as Carrie Underwood and Jessie J performing on multiple stages set up in the area.
With memories of the deadly attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, still fresh, police took extraordinary measures to assure security at an event that has come to define the New York experience for many visitors to the United States' largest city.
The pair have spent the holiday in New York before but never in Times Square, the Midtown Manhattan crossroads that is a year-round tourist draw, filled with chain stores, family restaurants and flashy advertising displays.
In the hours before the ball drops from the top of a narrow wedge of a building at the southern end of the square, revelers will be entertained by musicians such as Carrie Underwood and Jessie J performing on multiple stages set up in the area.