Year-Round Home for Manhattan's Times Square New Year's Eve Ball
NEW YORK (AP) -- Happy new year, again!
The famous Waterford crystal ball that descended in Times Square to ring in 2009 is being lit again and sent back up a 141-foot flagpole, where it will remain year-round.
The new ball, 12 feet in diameter, weighing nearly 12,000 pounds, and covered with 2,668 Waterford Crystal triangles, will now have a permanent home on the roof of One Times Square.
The ball will be raised midway up the mast on Tuesday, where it will stay until the next new year's celebration.
Organizers say the ball will also celebrate other holidays including Valentine's Day, the Fourth of July and Halloween.
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