New Year’s Eve will look different this year.
New Year’s Eve ball will still fall in Times Square, but the event will be attended by approximately one million members of the audience who often face the cold and the crowds to welcome the new year.
In 2021, the world-famous event that more than a billion people watch on television each year will not be open to the public. Instead, artists and personalities will perform in the cameras of an empty plaza, as the entire event has become virtual in light of the ongoing pandemic.
The square itself will not only be essentially empty, but so will the tower. With most of its revenue coming from billboards, the inside of the tower only has a couple of tenants and remnants of past business.
We entered the building in 2020 and photographed what was left of the interior of the building, from exposed steel pillars to a deteriorating office chair in the former New York Times newsroom.