But the headline-grabbing ticket prices are nothing new, says Paul Warshaw, co-founder of Ball Drop, a company that works with numerous Times Square restaurants, bars and hotels to plan New Year’s Eve parties.
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“We’ll have a huge number of police out on New Year’s Eve, including a lot of our new anti-terror force, the Critical Response Command, that’s 500-plus officers we put into the budget back in June, who are specialized in preventing terror”, he said.
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To build that up over time, it doesn’t happen in training camp”, Belichick said adding, “It takes some time to go through that. He also said he won’t treat Sunday’s game like an audition for the Eagles job or any other team’s head coaching gig.
“Well trained, well armed, prepared for any eventuality”, Mayor de Blasio said in a security briefing at the Nasdaq building in Times Square.
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Asked whether all the attention on Times Square would leave lower-profile targets vulnerable, Bratton said police working overtime would be covering the rest of the city but added that “the ability to protect everything all the time is not possible anywhere”.
The anticipation for the incoming New Year builds up as the City of NY makes its annual preparation for an event that draws hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world.
Almost 1,000 cameras will be transmitting images throughout the night.
Bomb-sniffing dogs and radiation detectors will also be employed.
2016 is drawing closer, and celebrations across the world are being prepared.
For those who can’t go to Times Square to watch the party, they can visit TimesSquareNYC.org for live online streaming. Musical performers to attend are Carrie Underwood, Demi Lvoato, Wiz Khalifa, Luke Bryan, and Charlie Puth.
Waters said that as crowds enter a frozen zone at 14 points, uniformed officers will inspect bodies and bags with magnetometers and hand wands.
NYPD Chief of Department James O’Neill stressed “there is no threat that we deem credible for any NY event”.
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In November after the Paris attacks that left 130 people dead, the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS, released a video showing a glimpse of Times Square and then a suicide bomber.
