From AP News: After the crystal ball drops on New Year’s Eve in New York City, it will rise again, sparkling in red, white and blue to usher in 2026 and kick off months of celebrations for the nation’s upcoming 250th birthday.
“It’s going to be one for the ages, the most inspirational celebration this country and maybe the world has ever seen.”
This is the New Year’s Eve ball that will be dropped this year in celebration of the United States’s 250th birthday:https://t.co/51ElPywEyy pic.twitter.com/xkjB1LqjGK— News 8 WROC (@News_8) December 26, 2025
The patriotic touches at this year’s Times Square gathering, including a second confetti drop, will offer an early glimpse of what’s ahead: hundreds of events and programs, big and small, planned nationwide to mark the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
“I’m telling you right now, whatever you’re imagining, it’s going to be much more than that,” said Chair Rosie Rios, chair for America250, a bipartisan commission created by Congress in 2016 to organize the semiquincentennial anniversary.
“It’s going to be one for the ages, the most inspirational celebration this country and maybe the world has ever seen,” Rios said.
America250 is also planning a second ball drop event on July 3, “in the same beautiful style that Times Square knows how to do it,” Rios said, marking the first time in 120 years that a ball drop in Times Square will occur outside of New Year’s Eve.
After the crystal ball drops on New Year’s Eve in New York City, it will rise again, sparkling in red, white and blue to usher in 2026 and kick off months of celebrations for the nation’s upcoming 250th birthday. pic.twitter.com/psoBYwVa0G
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 28, 2025
The last crystal for the New Year’s Eve ‘Constellation Ball’ has been installed at One Times Square in New York. Measuring 12.5 feet in diameter and weighing 12,350 pounds, it is the largest NYE Ball yet pic.twitter.com/CbgdDqUN1Z
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 27, 2025
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