Workers install 192 crystals on Times Square New Year's ball

Workers install a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, in New York, in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration. The ball is a 12-foot geodesic sphere covered with 2,688 crystal triangles of various sizes. Some new crystals are swapped in every year. [Photo: AFP]

A member of the media films workers installing a panel of Waterford crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, in New York. This year's addition features a new "Gift of Happiness" design represented by a sunburst of bright cuts radiating outward. [Photo: AFP]

A worker from Landmark Signs holds one of the 192 Waterford crystal triangles in a sunburst design that will be added to glass triangles already on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, in New York, in preparation for this year's pandemic-limited celebration lacking the usual tightly packed crowds of revelers. The ball blazing with 32,256 LED lights will be dropped at 11:59 p.m. on New Year's Eve to ring in 2021. Performances at the event will be designed for TV audiences watching from home. [Photo: AFP]