The Constellation Ball is tested before New Year's Eve 2026!

Times Square Ball

In final preparation for New Year’s Eve, the iconic Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball is illuminated and sent up the 130-foot pole atop One Times Square. Event co-organizers Sherri White, Executive, Jamestown and One Times Square, and Tom Harris, President of the Times Square Alliance, along with Jeffrey Straus, President of Countdown Entertainment, Executive Producer of Times Square New Year’s Eve, and Josh Weinstein, CEO of Carnival Corporation, flip the giant switch to light the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball initiating the spectacular, dazzling lighting effects as the Ball rises to its celebratory position atop One Times Square. The Constellation Ball, unveiled in November 2025, is the ninth iteration of the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball since its debut in 1907. Measuring 12.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12,350 pounds, adorned with 5,280 crystals and LED light pucks, nearly double the number of crystals as the previous Ball, it is the largest New Year’s Eve Ball yet.

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00:00five four three two one happy new year here we go today we actually tested the constellation

00:13ball to make sure we're ready for tomorrow and it went up and it came down we're good

00:17to go and we are headed up there oh wow okay looking good there's actually 5,280 waterford

00:26crystals on that ball all the colors of the rainbow I'm seeing purple and red and yellow

00:33it looks amazing well the brand new constellation ball is more beautiful than its predecessor I have

00:41to say it is brighter it is more colorful it is more sparkly and I think the world's gonna be

00:46delighted when they see it tomorrow over a billion people around the world will celebrate the new

00:52year by watching that ball come down live or news coverage the next day there's no moment like it

00:57that pole is 139 feet those 5,280 crystals there's four inch three inch and one and a half inches and if

01:07you are your friends come during the year you can actually remove one of the 2025 crystals install the

01:132026 crystal on the ball yourself and take home as a crystal keepsake a little piece of 2025 in the past

01:20you've only really seen the ball and we've talked about the ball just on New Year's Eve so the 31st of

01:25December and now that this attraction is available 365 days a year folks have the opportunity to

01:32experience it when they come to New York City anytime which is just great for both international visitors

01:38as well as domestic visitors

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