Times Square

New Year’s Eve 2020 was a far and away different experience amid the pandemic compared with the crowded excitement of previous years. But the ball still dropped, and the iconic spectacle was still a thrill. Watch the livestream above all night long to be part of New York City’s Times Square celebration (and to see the cleanup afterward) even...

Workers have installed nearly 200 glittering Waterford crystal triangles on Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration.

Police said a man started scaling the south side of the New York Times headquarters in midtown Thursday afternoon, though it was not immediately clear why he did so

Broadway theaters may be dark, but performers are bringing life back to New York City in a few new ways. Theater stars like Andrew Rannells, Norm Lewis and Bernadette Peters took to Times Square on Wednesday for a pop-up performance of “Sunday” from Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George.” They socially distanced on the red steps of...

The upcoming New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be “a virtually enhanced celebration,” the event’s organizers announced Wednesday.

If you’re a tourist in New York City, or even a harried local trying to get across midtown Manhattan, you’ve seen it, or maybe eaten in it — the giant McDonald’s on 42nd Street in Times Square with the Broadway-style marquee. No more, though — the company confirmed Wednesday that the location has shut down for good as of...

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Couples kissed. Others cheered and waved balloons as fireworks burst into the night sky and confetti fell to welcome the start of 2020 in New York City’s Times Square. In one of the globe’s most-watched New Year’s Eve spectacles, the crowd counted down the last seconds of 2019 as a luminescent crystal ball descended down a pole. Throngs of people cheered...

Over a million people packed America’s most famous place to ring in 2020.

This year’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will spotlight efforts to combat climate change when high school science teachers and students press the button that begins the famous 60-second ball drop and countdown to next year.

In his monologue, Jimmy Fallon jokes about Halloween, House Republicans storming a closed-during impeachment hearing and pays tribute to a location of the Sbarro pizza chain that recently closed down in Times Square.

In his monologue, Jimmy Fallon jokes about Halloween, House Republicans storming a closed-during impeachment hearing and pays tribute to a location of the Sbarro pizza chain that recently closed down in Times Square.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is facing a new undisclosed charge in his sexual misconduct case. Prosecutors revealed on Thursday that the charge is contained in a new indictment against the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star’s case. Gooding appeared Thursday at a Manhattan court for possible jury selection for his trial. He now must be arraigned on the new indictment next week before...

Will Smith and Dame Helen Mirren will read a bedtime story during a one-night fundraising event to help fight global homelessness.

A man dressed as Elmo in Times Square allegedly groped a 14-year-old tourist who was visiting New York City with a school group over the weekend, police said.

People walking in Times Square were sent into a widespread panic Tuesday night after what sounded like multiple gunshots rang out in the crowded tourist destination — only later to be ruled as motorcycle backfire, police said.

The “Stranger Things” cast and Jimmy Fallon pose as their characters’ wax statues at Madame Tussauds in Times Square, shocking unsuspecting fans while they take photos.

An electronic billboard went up in flames in Times Square on Saturday afternoon, firefighters said.

The sailor photographed kissing a woman in Times Square at the end of World War II is being laid to rest. George Mendonsa’s funeral will be held Friday at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island. Burial will follow at St. Columba Cemetery in Middletown.

The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95.