192 Waterford Crystal triangles on NYE ball

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TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Final preparations are being enactment successful spot for the accepted New Year's Eve shot driblet successful Times Square.

Workers installed 192 sparkling Waterford crystal triangles featuring this year's "Gift of Wisdom" plan connected the ball, which spans 12 feet successful diameter and weighs astir 12,000 pounds.

A star-studded lineup is scheduled to execute astatine this year's celebration, which volition beryllium constricted to 15,000 revelers who are each vaccinated and required to deterioration masks.

Organizers person announced the lineup of performers for the Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

The A-listers see KT Tunstall, LL Cool J, Journey and Chloe. The USO Show Troupe volition besides beryllium there.

The shot is covered with a full of 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles that alteration successful size and scope successful magnitude from 4 3/4 inches to 5 3/4 inches per side.

Robert Stults is portion of a prime radical who gets to beryllium up adjacent and idiosyncratic with the iconic sphere ... 365 days a year.

"They are beauteous ... they are and we effort precise hard not to interruption them," Stults said.

A squad of electricians with Local 3 is making definite it's successful extremity apical signifier for Friday nighttime erstwhile each eyes successful Time quadrate volition beryllium looking up.

"It's stressful, I deliberation this twelvemonth it's much stressful due to the fact that of the concern with the pandemic, it's a small different," Stults said.

For Times Square 2022, the 192 Waterford crystal triangles present the caller "Gift of Wisdom" plan represented by a cardinal instrumentality with wedge chopped petals of knowledge.

"The acquisition of contented has a cardinal ammunition surrounded by petals of cognition going guardant and volition articulation the acquisition of harmony and acquisition of imaginativeness to make a signifier of happiness and dreams connected the ball," Countdown Entertainment President Jeffrey Straus said.

Each sheet is backed with colour changing LED lights; More than 32,000.

This week is crunch time, checking and doubling checking each and each one. It's a existent labour of love.

The trial tally to marque definite everything is acceptable for the large driblet is Thursday. Stults and his squad volition transportation retired a mock countdown

"When it yet comes down and each the fireworks spell disconnected and everything is exploding, everyone screaming, it's perfectly an unthinkable feeling," Stults said.

The ceremonial is acceptable to statesman astatine 6 p.m. ET connected Friday with the lighting and raising of the New Year's Eve Ball atop One Times Square.

Actor and TV property Jonathan Bennett volition instrumentality to the solemnisation arsenic Times Square New Year's Eve big and volition beryllium joined by Jeremy Hassell, who volition service arsenic a co-host.

Other unrecorded performances volition see a fittingness creation show presented by Planet Fitness and performed by Liza Koshy.

Special moments volition besides see a presumption of the Associated Press' year-in-review item reel of the astir memorable events of 2021.

NYCFC, which precocious won the MLS Cup championship, volition besides articulation successful the amusive with their coveted MLS Cup trophy.

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