The building is called 1 Times Square and was the Times Building when it was built, and don't remind me about Allied. They're the idiots who ripped off the original, beautifully detailed Romanesque exterior walls of that building and replaced them with the nondescript marble facade seen today. An architectural crime.

cancel the fucking ball drop-enough already. The city is in the shitter financially but finds time to throw a huge fucking party...

"in the shitter financially"?

Either you're being sarcastic, or your granddad was trying to get to second base with your grandmom back in the mid '70's when NYC was actually insolvent, and your dad probably hadn't gotten any farther with your mom during the Reagan crack wars in the in the late '80's/early '90's.

Back then, we had bigger, better parties. In the late '80's I went to a party at Nirvana in the "Allied Chemical" building (the one the ball drops on, I'm not sure what it's called now) and I was able to sneak up the fire escape and hang with the guys who lowered the ball by hand. If I tried that now, I'd be shot by snipers. Back then New York City couldn't even afford snipers, but we survived and thrived.

Uh no Mr Manhattan i am not being sarcastic. But thanks for insulting my family who have been dead for well over thirty years now. Have a happy fucking new years. try not to get shot okay?

There very well may be some small number of individuals who are so blinded by religious extremism that they will be devoted to random violence against civilians no matter what we do, but we are constantly maximizing the pool of recruits and sympathy among the population on which they depend. In other words, what we do constantly bolsters their efforts, and when we do, we always seem to move more in the direction of helping them even further. Ultimately, we should ask ourselves: if we drop more bombs on more Muslim countries, will there be fewer or more Muslims who want to blow up our airplanes and are willing to end their lives to do so? That question really answers itself

Sniper teams? I can just imagine the stampede if someone were shot in the middle of that crowd. What a wonderful idea.

Hasslehoffed. Getting s*it faced and ending up in the ER for alchy poisoning.

i'm more worried about the cops getting hassled, myself.

BALL DROP!

if they provide toilets I say go the extra mile and provide some booze too!

a billion drunk people with nowhere to pee, sounds awesome