If you look below, you can see the official live stream of the Times Square festivities, which will include some performances, “Imagine”, and of course the iconic ball drop at the stroke of midnight. With this New Year’s Eve in Times Square was the safest party in the world.
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Despite a year of global unrest and terror threats leading up to New Year’s Eve, roughly a million people are expected to pack Times Square to watch the ball drop.
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Multi-layered checkpoints are also set up in and around Times Square, manned by policemen with long guns, radiation detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs.
Officers from the New York Police Department’s elite emergency services unit surveyed the scene from Times Square rooftops, peering below through binoculars and scopes as snipers stood beside them.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said investigators have been monitoring intelligence channels for anything that would suggest Times Square could be a target.
When asked whether he had any hesitation when deciding whether to attend the countdown, Freeman said that it was a spontaneous decision to attend the event, leaving for NY just two hours after making the call at home. Scroll down for options on how to view the live stream via a free app as well as options for watching on your television if you’re at a party or celebrating in your pajamas on the couch.
“I feel very safe now”, said Zachary Freeman, who came from Arizona. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson A woman is searched by a New York Police Department officer as she enters a pen to wait for the beginning of New Year’s Eve festivities in the Times Square area of New York December 31, 2015.
More than a million people lined the streets to watch what some described as “the best fireworks in the world”.
“It could happen anywhere, but you can’t start the world panicking”, he said as a recording of the James Brown song “Living in America” blared from the stage.
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By early evening, crowds organized into neat pens formed by police barricades stretched for many blocks up Seventh Avenue and Broadway north of One Times Square. He said it was impossible to forget “so many days marked by violence, by death, by the unspeakable suffering of so many innocents”.
