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*New Year’s Eve Wishing Wall*

Hopes & Dreams

Ever since The New York Times first brought thousands of revelers to Times Square to celebrate New Year’s Eve in 1904, this iconic public space has been a focal point for gatherings of great historical or emotional import all year round. In a city and country that mythologize individualism, Times Square has been where crowds gather spontaneously to inform or express themselves. Reading The New York Times “ticker” - at the time a technological marvel conveying news instantaneously - people learned of and celebrated a pivotal election, a World Series championship, or the end of World War II. Here, moments and memories are fused.

Nowhere is that more true than for New Year’s Eve, the celebration seen by over 1 billion people worldwide. It is a celebration with the people we love and the good things in our lives, no matter how mad the world seems at times. It is a chance to remember and reflect on the year gone by. But above all it is a time when we dream of renewal, new hopes and new beginnings. 

Participate in this annual ritual by writing your wish for the New Year on a piece of confetti for our New Year’s Eve Wishing Wall. Whether it is a dream for yourself, for someone you love, or for the world at large, if you write it here on a piece of confetti we will release it at midnight on New Year’s Eve for all the world to see.