CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

The New York Daily News reports:

Nearly two hundred Waterford crystals were secured onto the famous Times Square New Year’s Eve ball in New York on Dec. 27, 2019. Days before the celebration ringing in 2020, 192 crystals from the Waterford crystal factory in Ireland were installed onto the nearly six ton, 12 feet in diameter ball in this year’s “Gift of Goodwill” design.

WATCH: Workers install the finishing touches on the nearly 12,000-pound New Year’s Eve ball in Times Square.

This year’s design celebrates the “Gift of Goodwill” and is covered with a total of 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles. #NYE2020 ?pic.twitter.com/cZa1qSsDqR

— Elma Aksalic (@ElmaAksalic) December 27, 2019

The Times Square New Year’s Eve ball is decked out with 192 engraved Waterford crystal plaques to ring in 2020 pic.twitter.com/SiXFijurIu

— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) December 28, 2019