Updated 01/06/2009 04:58 PM
New Year’s Ball Gets New Perch
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The new Times Square New Year's Eve ball was relit today and sent up a 141-foot flagpole.
Staying on the roof of One Times Square, the ball will remain lit until the next New Year's celebration and even be used to help celebrate other holidays this year.
"This is a New York City landmark now. It's a tourist attraction that people from all over the world will come and see, just like the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building," said President Jeffrey Straus of Countdown Entertainment. "When you make your trip to New York and Times Square, your going to take back home a picture of this New Years' Eve ball with 2009 underneath."
The ball is covered with more than 2,600 Waterford Crystal triangles.