Make way for 2025! I’m blown away by all the great work you’ve done this year. So excited to see what you accomplish in 2025! Happy New Year! I can’t wait to see you crush 2025. I can’t ...

At the north end of Times Square, Jeffrey Straus, the president of Countdown Entertainment, which produces the ball drop ceremony ... and also sported a “Happy New Year” headband.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The New Year's Eve ball drop started over 100 years ago. Based on a 19th-century maritime tradition, "time balls" were once dropped down poles in ...