New Year's Eve no-discount The Empire State Building glows

The Empire State Building glows at night in Manhattan

Although the plan is intended to preserve the architectural and structural integrity of the 87-year-old terminal

much of the commentary was a restatement of his extemporaneous speech at the Republican Convention

in Flushing Meadows

New Year's Eve no-discount The Empire State Building glowsTimes 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