New Year's Eve ship-puzzles ran along the Bowery as

ran along the Bowery as early as 1832

" Obama wrote in the letter

was built in just 284 days at cost of $2

These skaters were their own silent partners on a wintery afternoon

" a play within a play

New Year's Eve ship-puzzles ran along the Bowery asTimes photographer Chester Higgins Jr. captured technicians in 1978, eyeing a new and improved ball that would soon descend during the annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. No big deal, but in 1907, The Times invented the Times Square ball drop. "The descent of an electric ball will mark the arrival of 1908 tonight," read a short item in the newspaper on December 31 of that year. The original ball was five feet in diameter. Its light came