Times Square

Latest Stories

Two boys play football in front of a billboard welcoming the New Year 2025 in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam on Tuesday, Dec.31, 2024. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

New Zealand’s Auckland is the first major city to welcome 2025 with fireworks and light show

By Charlotte Graham-Mclay - Associated Press

The 9pm fireworks are seen during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP)

The world begins welcoming 2025 with light shows, embraces and ice plunges

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

Two boys play football in front of a billboard welcoming the New Year 2025 in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam on Tuesday, Dec.31, 2024. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Cities across the globe prepare to welcome the New Year in celebrations tinged with local traditions

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

Singer Pitbull, left, and Joy Mangano, right, founder of CleanBoss, install a crystal during the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball Crystal Installation at One Times Square, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

WATCH: Rapper Pitbull helps unveil the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball

Associated Press

This surveillance image taken from a wanted poster provided by New York City Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, shows a suspected shoplifter who shot a tourist in the leg inside a Times Square, New York, sporting goods store on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, who then fled into the street, stopping to shoot at a pursuing police officer. (New York City Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry via AP)

Teen accused of shooting tourist in Times Square charged with attempted murder

Associated Press

This surveillance image taken from a wanted poster provided by New York City Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, shows a suspected shoplifter who shot a tourist in the leg inside a Times Square, New York, sporting goods store on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, who then fled into the street, stopping to shoot at a pursuing police officer. (New York City Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry via AP)

Teen accused of shooting tourist in Times Square and firing at officer is arrested

By Jake Offenhartz and Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Mayor Eric Adams, left, listens as District Attorney Alvin Bragg, right, speaks during a press conference, where several charges for migrants involved in a Times Square brawl with police, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Manhattan prosecutor announces new indictments in Times Square brawl between police and migrants

By Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and on the Harbour Bridge as part of New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP Image via AP)

Sydney and Auckland are the first major cities to ring in 2024 as war shadows celebrations elsewhere

Associated Press

The New Year's Eve ball is shown in Times Square on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023 in New York. With throngs of revelers set to usher in the new year under the bright lights of Times Square, officials and organizers say they are prepared to welcome the crowds and ensure their safety. (AP Photo/Julie Walker)

Visitors set to pack into Times Square for annual New Year’s Eve ball drop

Associated Press

FILE - People wait in line at the Times Square TKTS discount ticket booth in New York on Jan. 19, 2012. The TKTS booth in Times Square, which has become part of the city's visual and financial DNA and a key part in keeping Broadway going, celebrates its 50th birthday this week. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

Iconic TKTS booth in Times Square celebrates 50 years of Broadway ticket discounts

By Mark Kennedy - Associated Press

Revelers celebrate in Times Square in New York, Jan. 1, 2022, as they attend New Year's Eve celebrations. A sweeping new gun law in New York that would require applicants to hand over social media information before they could carry a gun in public while declaring bucolic parks, bustling Times Square and a long list of other places off limits for firearms is scheduled to take effect on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, amid legal battles and lingering confusion. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File) **FILE**

Caesars pitches Times Square casino for one of the New York City’s three gambling licenses

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - The 2022 sign that will be lit on top of a building on New Year's Eve is displayed in Times Square, New York, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. New York City is readying to embrace the new year by reviving its annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square—limiting the number of people to about 15,000 in-person spectators. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York City ushers in 2022 with ball drop in Times Square

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

Jonathan Bennett, host of Good Riddance Day, left, and Joe Papa, Director of Events, Times Square Alliance burn a 2021 banner at the official Good Riddance Day celebration in Times Square, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Corey Sipkin)

Times Square show will go on despite virus surge, mayor says

By Karen Matthews - Associated Press

People wait in a long line to get tested for COVID-19 in Times Square, New York, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Just a couple of weeks ago, New York City seemed like a relative bright spot in the U.S. coronavirus struggle. Now it's a hot spot, confronting a dizzying spike in cases, a scramble for testing, a quandary over a major event and an exhausting sense of déjà vu. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New Year’s Eve in Times Square still on, with smaller crowd

Associated Press

In this image taken from video by the FDNY, pedestrians hurry away from the scene of a shooting in Times Square, Saturday, May 8, 2021, in New York. New York City police say three innocent bystanders including a 4-year-old girl who was toy shopping have been shot in Times Square and officers are looking for suspects. All the victims are expected to recover. (FDNY via AP)

Times Square gun victim: I screamed ‘I don’t want to die’

Associated Press

This image taken from surveillance video provided by the New York City Police Department shows a person of interest, background center, assaulting an Asian American woman, on ground, Monday, March 29, 2021, in New York. The 65-year-old woman was walking in midtown Manhattan a few blocks from Times Square on Monday afternoon when a man approached her and kicked her in the stomach, knocking her to the ground, police said. (Courtesy of New York Police Department via AP)

Daughter: Bystander disrupted attack on Asian American woman

By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks ahead of the first COVID-19 vaccinations at NYU-Langone Hospital on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in New York. Hundreds of thousands of health care workers across the country are expected to receive the vaccine this week. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).

NYC mayor de Blasio blasted for COVID hypocrisy with Times Square dance

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2014, file photo, New York Police Department counterterrorism officers, foreground, armed with an explosives detection device, far right, watch as other police officers inspect revelers entering a cordoned off area in Times Square in New York, on New Years Eve. Although New York City police have turned to familiar tactics ahead of the iconic Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, ball drop, the department's playbook this year includes an unusual mandate: preventing crowds from gathering in Times Square. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Bomb-sniffing dogs? Check. Times Square crowd? Not this year

By ROBERT BUMSTED and JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2020, file photo, confetti falls at midnight on the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration in New York. If ever a year's end seemed like cause for celebration, 2020 might be it. Yet the coronavirus scourge that dominated the year is also looming over New Year's festivities and forcing officials worldwide to tone them down. (Photo by Ben Hider/Invision/AP, File)

After a year like this, expect a strange New Year’s Eve

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Protesters kneel in Times Square in New York, Tuesday, June 2, 2020. The New York City immortalized in song and scene has been swapped out for the last few months with the virus version. In all the unknowing of what the future holds, there's faith in that other quintessential facet of New York City: that the city will adapt. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Car drives through protesters in Times Square

Associated Press