From the 1930s to present: New Year's Eve in New York's Times Square — mashable.com

Every year hundreds of thousands of revelers descend upon the gleaming intersection of Seventh Avenue and Broadway in New York City to celebrate the turn of the new year. Famously, Times Square plays host to musical performances, celebrity guests and 2,000 pounds of falling confetti. Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve began in 1974, and has hosted the ball drop party in Times Square ever since, but people were filling the square to ring in the new year for decades before Clark's televised party.

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