The Times Square ball drop has been a tradition for over a century and has always symbolized new beginnings and a fresh start. But the ball itself has changed dramatically over its 113-year history.

NEW YORK -- Hundreds of thousands people flooded Times Square to watch New York City's iconic ball drop on New Year's Eve in person, while another billion look on from around the world.

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were used to create a lighted time ball. It would drop over Times Square for the first time on New Year's Eve 1907. That first ball was six feet in diameter, made of iron and wood, weighed 700 ...

The time ball, for the uninitiated ... above New York's Times Square. The crystal, geodesic sphere is a suitably glitzy ornamentation to mark the end of the city's world-famous New Year's Eve ...

Jared Ranahan is a reporter who covers travel and ecotourism. While the annual Times Square ball drop draws hordes of tourists each year, locals will be the first to tell you that the event can be ...

Applebee's, which has two locations in Times Square, sold tickets starting at $650 a pop for its New Year's Eve celebration, The New York Post earlier reported. Ball Drop, the event's producer ...