Strangers in the night: Celebrating 2025 in New York city
The Peninsula
New York: Tens of thousands of partygoers from around the world braved freezing temperatures and driving rain overnight Tuesday to ring in the new yea...
New York: Tens of thousands of partygoers from around the world braved freezing temperatures and driving rain overnight Tuesday to ring in the new year in New York's famed Times Square.
"I really wanted to live this experience in New York. It's once in a lifetime," said Jennifer Lopez, who hails from the Dominican Republic but now calls Long Island home.
The passage to the new year in the "Big Apple" has taken place since 1907 in Manhattan, at the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street -- a crossroad illuminated day and night by the signs of theatres, music halls, and giant digital advertising screens.
The colorful event attracts New Yorkers, other Americans, and foreigners in the tens of thousands every December 31.
Elizabeth Anderson, a 32-year-old Mexican now living in Australia, was making her third trip to New York, where she met her husband 11 years ago.
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