New Year's Eve Times Square Ball Drop
Event Information
Thursday December 31 2009 12:00M
42nd St & 8th Ave or
50th St & 8th Ave
  
 
42nd St - Times Square or
50th St & Broadway
42nd St - Times Square or
49th St & 7th Ave
Take the subway, not a bus!
All Manhattan bus routes will be affected by the street closures
around Times Square
Don't even think about driving!
If you happen to be lucky enough to get over a bridge or through a
tunnel there really won't be anywhere to go. Do yourself a favor
and take the subway, a bus to the Port Authority terminal, or
train to either Grand Central Terminal or Penn Station
Information
Times
Square Business Improvement District
It's that time of year again. Time
to join the crowds thronging to the brightest square in the world
on this New Year's Eve night to watch the ball drop. You have to get to the Times Square
area early to be able to get a half-way good spot to enjoy the
show. That means you'll be standing in one place for several
hours. Be sure you're warmly dressed, don't
stray to far from your loved ones, bring a bottle of water to
quench your thirst and, yeah, bring along a bottle to pee in.
You're in for a long, long night
Just bring yourself! Leave
the backpacks and large bags at home. Everything is subject to
search, everybody has to pass through a metal detector
The area around Times Square will
be blocked off by 4:00P. Crowd control
measures that the police have had in effect for the past few years
channel crowds into distinct areas, separated by barricades. Each
area is accessible by only one or two directions so you can't go
into the Times Square area at, say, 49th Street and 7th Avenue and
expect to cross Broadway and walk down to 45th Street. You can
only move within your distinct area
Don't worry about being bored
through your long wait as festivities and entertainment are
provided throughout the evening. Folks especially look forward
to the performers from Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve
It is not yet sure how much of
Midtown West will be closed to traffic, though it will be at least
from 42nd Street to 59th Street and from 6th to 8th
Avenues. This means that most of Midtown West will be impassable
by car, bus, taxi and bicycle and be very, very slow going on
foot. The spillover effects will be felt from 14th Street to 86th
Streets on the West Side and the Midtown Tunnel to the 59th Street
Bridge on the East Side. Increased riders will affect all subway
lines through the Times Square area, with spillover to the
Lexington Avenue lines likely; as crowds build, some stations in
the Times Square area might be closed or bypassed. The Port Authority Bus Terminal,
Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal will be busy, busy, busy
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