For many people in New York on December 31, the Times Square Alliance’s New Year’s Eve Ball Drop is the only game in town. And why not? It’s got a Waterford crystal-encrusted ball, a literal ton of confetti, and a million people who are really psyched to welcome in the New Year. (If, you know, you’re into that kind of thing.)
To compete with a happening like that, you gotta have a gimmick. And so, in an attempt to lure some revelers away from the Square and into the Tribeca Grand, the hotel has whipped up the “New Year’s Eve Grand Cocktail Party,” featuring an alternative ball drop.
The Grand has commissioned New Jersey-based sculptural artist and metal fabricator Darren Vigilant to create a four-foot replica of the 1955 incarnation of the iconic ball, which will be lowered old-school-style—manually, with a rope and stopwatch—in the hotel’s eight-story Church Lounge Atrium at midnight. (Bonus Times Square trivia: It wasn’t until the late date of 1995 that control of the ball’s descent was handed off to a computer.)
Posted 12.20.06
To compete with a happening like that, you gotta have a gimmick. And so, in an attempt to lure some revelers away from the Square and into the Tribeca Grand, the hotel has whipped up the “New Year’s Eve Grand Cocktail Party,” featuring an alternative ball drop.
The Grand has commissioned New Jersey-based sculptural artist and metal fabricator Darren Vigilant to create a four-foot replica of the 1955 incarnation of the iconic ball, which will be lowered old-school-style—manually, with a rope and stopwatch—in the hotel’s eight-story Church Lounge Atrium at midnight. (Bonus Times Square trivia: It wasn’t until the late date of 1995 that control of the ball’s descent was handed off to a computer.)
Posted 12.20.06
