New York’s New Year’s Eve event in Times Square is one of the biggest New Year’s Eve celebrations in the world. In this particular year, the event is turning online.
As the end of 2020 approaches, many people share this man’s hopes for the New Year.
On the 28th, the “Good Riddance Day” (Good Riddance Day) held in New York’s Times Square, people wrote down their worries in the past year. Unlike previous years, due to the new crown epidemic, this year many people shared their worries through the Internet, printed out by the organizers and shredded at the event.
Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, said, “All of the emotions have become stronger in 2020 because people really want to get rid of a lot of the woes and the pain and the loneliness of the past year, and they also see the light at the end of the tunnel, which is vaccines. In a sense, it may be in the future that the Broadway theater will finally be filled to capacity and people are joyfully together. After this extraordinary year, we need a fresh start and that sense of ritual more than ever.”
Also in New York’s Times Square, people made wishes for 2021.
New Yorker Michael said, “I made a wish that it could go on and on , I mean 2021, and hopefully that will be a better New Year.”
Veronica, a New Yorker, said, “I wish I could see my family. They live in Puerto Rico and I want to see them often, so I need the new coronavirus to be away from us so I can travel and I can see them often.”
Others wrote on pieces of paper their hopes for the issue of race in society, which is one of the most important topics for the American people in 2020.
Aya, a high school student from San Diego, said, “Our country is experiencing racial inequality, and as a black girl, I hope 2021 will be different.”
The colorful pieces of paper filled with New Year’s wishes will be sprinkled from high in the sky at ground zero on New Year’s Eve, along with the world’s largest crystal ball.
Times Square’s most famous annual crystal ball New Year’s Eve countdown is also in the works, except this year it is switching to an online broadcast and the site will not be open to the public.
Jeffrey Strauss, chairman of the New Year’s Eve countdown celebration, said, “Behind me is the Times Square New Year’s Eve Waterford Crystal Ball. This is the world’s largest crystal ball, weighing six tons and measuring 12 feet in diameter, covering 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles. Today we are installing a new design, ‘The Gift of Joy’. Waterford created this beautiful design, which is a rising sun shining outward, bringing warmth and smiles to thousands of homes.”
Organizers said special guests at this year’s celebration are front-line medical professionals, first responders and others who are the heroes who have given and sacrificed for people in 2020. People can watch this New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square simultaneously on TV, online and mobile apps.
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