NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Can’t handle the crowd in Times Square on New Year’s Eve ? You could still see a momentous holiday confetti drop.
Organizers of the Times Square holiday tradition will do a practice confetti drop on Sunday to test the “worthiness” of the confetti at Broadway Plaza between 45th and 46th Streets.
At 11 a.m., multicolored confetti will drop around the New Year’s Eve stage in preparation for the main event, when 3,000 pounds of confetti drop at midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Those pieces of confetti will have written on them wishes for the new year, submitted ahead of time by people online and in-person at the Times Square Wishing Wall, which will be available for more wishes on Sunday.
This is part of a week-long celebration of the new year. Yesterday, New Yorkers celebrated Good Riddance Day , an unofficial holiday for New Yorkers to say goodbye to the parts of their life that no longer serve them.
Emily Rahhal is a digital reporter who has covered New York City since 2023 after reporting in Los Angeles for years. She joined PIX11 in 2024. See more of her work here and follow her on Twitter here .