NEW YORK, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Practically 200 new Waterford crystals had been put in on the New Yr’s Eve ball in Occasions Sq. in New York on Tuesday in preparation for Saturday’s celebration to welcome in 2023.
Since 1999, replacements for the two,688 crystal panels that make up the ball have been designed and made by hand by Irish craftsmen at Waterford. Annually, a brand new theme is chosen.
[1/4] A staff holds up one of many new Waterford Crystal triangles that includes this 12 months’s “Reward of Love” design on the Occasions Sq. New Yr’s Eve Ball on the roof of One Occasions Sq. in Manhattan, New York Metropolis, U.S., December 27, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
This 12 months’s theme was the “Reward of Love,” incorporating intertwining love hearts, mentioned Waterford grasp artisan Tom Brennan on the Occasions Sq. website.
“We’d like this after the pandemic. We have all gone by way of an horrendous two years. We have come out the opposite aspect of it and we have come out higher. We encompass ourselves with love. We have got the whole lot,” he mentioned.
This 12 months, for the primary time since earlier than the pandemic, there can be no COVID-related restrictions on guests keen to courageous the chilly and crowds of Occasions Sq. in midtown-Manhattan to depend down the brand new 12 months and see the ball drop on the stroke of midnight.
Reporting by Hussein Al Waaile and Kyoko Gasha; Writing by Rosalba O’Brien; Modifying by Leslie Adler
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