Workers have installed 192 glittering Waterford crystal triangles on Times Square's New Year's Eve ball in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration that will lack the usual tightly packed crowds of revellers from various parts. The ball is a 12-foot geodesic sphere covered with 2,688 crystal triangles of various sizes. Some new crystals are swapped in every year. This year's addition features a new "Gift of Happiness" design represented by a sunburst of bright cuts radiating outward. 

The ball blazing with 32,256 LED lights will be dropped at 11.59 pm on New Year's Eve to ring in 2021. Performances at the event will be designed for TV audiences watching from home. “It’s going to go up and come down, as it has every year for over 100 years because in these crazy times, there are some rituals we want to continue,” said Tim Tompkins, the president of the Times Square Alliance. 

The crew replaces some of the more than 2,000 Waterford Crystals of the massive and iconic symbol of 12 feet wide weighing 12,000 pounds. The ball is ready for the show but the Pandemic pushes show to be different. Times Square and the surrounding streets will be completely closed off to the public on the New Year's Eve. “It’s good people have to stay home," said New Yorker Winifred Boakye. "At least 2020 is ending.”  40 essential workers and their families are pre-selected to watch in Personnel adopting social distancing. 

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