New Year’s Eve 2024 – A Times Square Tradition

New Year’s Eve 2024 – A Times Square Tradition

Roughly a million people will crowd into Times Square for the drop of the iconic Times Square Ball tonight. The tradition was started in 1907 by the New York Times’ owner, Adolph Ochs, when the city banned fireworks. The ball has dropped every year at midnight (00:00) on January 1st since then with the exception of 1942-1943, the years of WWII when ‘lights out’ was enforced.

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These Are a Few of my Favorite Things…

 These Are a Few of my Favorite Things…

I read an article in the NY Times recently about people’s favorite things and superlatives from 2024. It seems like a good way to reflect on the past year and decide upon the things that really made an impression. None of the ones I read about were major life occurrences, but rather more mundane things in people’s lives. I thought I’d give it a whirl.

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