Times Square Ball Gets Test Run Before Big New Year's Eve Party
The star of New Year's Eve went through dress rehearsal in Times Square on Wednesday.
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The star of New Year's Eve went through dress rehearsal in Times Square on Wednesday.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said there will be around 6,000 officers stationed in Times Square on New Years Eve, with hundreds officers equipped with counterterrorism training.
Confetti fluttered to the ground in front of the marquee at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square on Tuesday morning, as part of preparations for NYC's New Years Eve celebrations.
Many folks are saying goodbye to bad memories from 2015 in an effort to get the new year off to a positive start.
The Waterford crystal ball in Times Square is being worked on in preparation for its glittering entrance into 2016 later this week.
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Preparations are set to begin Sunday on the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square.
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Lt. William Moore and Officers Anthony Tufano and Richard Aponte had just finished doing bag checks when they saw a large crowd forming and heard a woman yelling that someone had fallen onto the tracks, police said.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton reiterated Thursday that the Islamic State video showing images of Times Square appears to have used old footage and there have been no new specific threats.
There was a close call for a baby in the Times Square subway station at around 7:45 p.m. Sunday evening.
Some city officials are now proposing to confine both the topless women and the costumed characters working alongside them to designated "activity zones.''
Bratton said the NYPD worked with Revlon, which now shuts the sign off at 8 p.m.
While the panel will not call for banning topless ladies or characters who ask for tips, sometimes aggressively when they pose for photos, it wants to restrict the ladies and characters to certain areas.
Hundreds of participants are riding stationary bikes in the "Crossroads of the World" to raise money for rare cancer research.
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A woman allegedly punched one of the topless, painted women in the middle of Times Square Sunday afternoon, 1010 WINS reported.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said it's preposterous to compare the Times Square of today with the way it was 25 years ago.
There were two incidents that ended in arrests involving the topless, painted women known as "desnudas" in Times Square Wednesday night.
The NYPD has established a new task force to patrol Times Square, and that is just the beginning of the city's efforts to combat the spread of aggressive panhandling, costumed characters and other quality of life issues.
The mayor promised that the task force will examine the safety ramifications and crowed, "I think what we've done with Vision Zero is beyond what any previous administration has done."
Bratton made the suggestion in the wake of growing complaints about topless, body painted women and aggressive costumed characters seeking tips for photos.
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New York City's police commissioner has a solution for the harassment and nuisance problems plaguing Times Square.
