The iconic ball drops outside New Year's Eve for the first time.
Once the revelers cleared the streets, New York City's Department of Sanitation workers were on the job, facing 100,000 pounds of litter.
The New Year's Eve Times Square ball just got bigger and brighter with a bowtie to match.
New Year's Eve in Times Square, with its significant attendance and media coverage, makes an "attractive target for foreign terrorist organizations, homegrown violent extremists, domestic violent extremists, lone offenders, and targeted violence" but "no specific reporting regarding any threats," according to a threat assessment obtained by ABC News.
The show stars Rosario Dawson, who reprises her live-action portrayal of former Jedi Ahsoka Tano.
After 35 years and nearly 14,000 performances, Sunday will be the finale of Broadway's longest-running production, The Phantom of the Opera.