NYE Ball Drop photo
New Years’ Eve 2021 celebration in New York will look very different this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
With only three months left of 2020; according to reports in the Daily Mail, New York’s Times Square Ball Drop will go virtual this year to avoid fears that large crowds will spread the virus.
The event is co-produced by the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment. It’s set to kick off December 31. Times Square will be cordoned off by the NYPD.
The owners of One Times Square, Jamestown have built a virtual world of Times Square and an app to broadcast the NYE Ball Drop.
Here’s a video of the ball drop on YouTube CBS-TV:
With tensions rising on COVID concerns and racial injustice riots; the organizers of this year’s virtual NYE 2021 Celebration would rather not focus on that. Instead, they prefer everyone enjoys themselves virtually without worrying about the usual mass crowds and forget their concerns of 2020 and start focusing on the future for 2021.
New York’s Times Square NYE is one of the biggest celebrations in the world with over a billion people sprawling Midtown Manhattan’s streets every year; this year’s event will only permit a few workers from the Times Square Alliance and not the general public.
Obviously, it’s not the typical NYE celebration we’re used to. But it’s better than nothing to wave 2020 farewell and good riddance to the terrible year that 2020 was!