New York City Prepares for Quiet New Year’s Eve Fete
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New York City is deploying thousands of police officers to Times Square for the first New Year’s Eve since an attempted terrorist bombing in May.
Hundreds of thousands of revelers descend on Broadway and Seventh Avenue to celebrate the year’s end and watch a lighted ball drop from a flagpole atop One Times Square. The tradition began in 1904 and attracts as many as 1 million people, according to the Times Square Alliance, a business-residents group.