New Year's Eve no-discount in Flushing Meadows

in Flushing Meadows

who also presented his eponymous tower at the 1889 World's Fair

and he made a dramatic and tearful speech that would become part of baseball lore

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an adaptation of "Joan of Lorraine" was filmed in Technicolor as "Joan of Arc

New Year's Eve no-discount in Flushing MeadowsTimes photographer Chester Higgins Jr. captured technicians in 1978, eyeing a new and improved ball that would soon descend during the annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. No big deal, but in 1907, The Times invented the Times Square ball drop. "The descent of an electric ball will mark the arrival of 1908 tonight," read a short item in the newspaper on December 31 of that year. The original ball was five feet in diameter. Its light came