A drenching rain didn't stop revelers from packing Times Square for New York City's New Year's Eve celebration, with much of the crowd determined to have a good time as they waited hours Monday night for performers including Christina Aguilera, Sting and Snoop Dogg.
The soggy weather was in evidence as boy band New Kids On The Block splashed up puddles while performing their hit 'Step by Step' on a giant set of steps.
Vendors gouged the unprepared, charging up to $10 for ponchos that ordinarily sell for $2.
A reveler adjusts her hat as she waits in Times Square in New York on Monday. Hundreds of thousands are expected to crowd into Times Square for the ball drop
Visitors to Times Square brave the heavy rain and cheer during the New Year's Eve celebration late Monday night
Security did not permit umbrellas so revelers had to make do with plastic bags and ponchos
Dan Smyers of Dan + Shay performs during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square late Monday night
The biggest cheers early on were for event workers handing out foam hats and blue gloves.
The Times Square party is always a marathon, with often cold temperatures, security rules, hours-long waits and a lack of public toilets.
Veterans of the celebration said the rain wasn't all that bad.
'We're troopers. We got this,' said Nyia Williamson, 41, a self-described New Kids On The 'Block Head' who was at the party for the 11th time.
Rain, she said, is better than bitter cold.
Darlene Freitas, from Ontario, Canada, center, and others stand in the rain as they take part in the New Year's Eve festivities in New York's Times Square
Although city officials initially expected some 2 million people, security experts said the real crowd size figure for the ball drop in Times Square is less than a quarter of that number
New York City canine police officers stand near revelers gathered in Times Square as rain falls
Revelers were not allowed to take the stick of their umbrella, so they had to resort to removing the canopy and wearing it as a hat
Hours before the ball drop, reams of confetti are released into the air in Manhattan's Times Square on Monday evening
Revelers came well prepared with ponchos, hats, and corporate-sponsored balloons at Times Square in New York City
The Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop was first inaugurated in 1907 by Adolph Ochs, who at the time owned The New York Times
Ochs organized the event as a vehicle to promote the fact that Times Square was the new headquarters for America's 'newspaper of record'
The rain failed to deter these revelers who gathered in Times Square to watch the ball drop and ring in 2019 late Monday
Prime viewing areas of the ball drop filled up in the early afternoon in New York's Times Square on Monday
New Kids On The Block perform during New Year's eve celebrations in Times Square in Manhattan on Monday
New Kids On The Block is an American boy band from Boston, Massachusetts. It enjoyed commercial success in the 1980s and 90s before disbanding
In 2007, the band reunited. Last year they launched a world tour. The band consists of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Wood
Last year's party was one of the coldest on record at 10 degrees Fahrenheit. This year, the temperature was about 45 degrees at 8pm.
Spectators started assembling late Monday morning to await performers including Dan + Shay, Bastille and singer songwriter Bebe Rexha, who was to perform John Lennon's 'Imagine' just before midnight.
The final 60-second countdown happens as a geodesic sphere - 12-feet in diameter, covered with 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles and lit by 32,256 LEDs - drops down a pole.
The numerals '2019' light up at midnight accompanied by pyrotechnics and the release of 3,000 pounds of confetti.
Larissa Duke, a 22-year-old college student from Ontario, Canada, wrapped herself in a garbage bag and placed the top of an umbrella on her head to stay dry.
Umbrellas were banned from the celebration for security reasons, so Duke had to discard the umbrella's shaft at a checkpoint.
The Boston skyline is lit up by fireworks on Monday as Bostonians celebrate First Night 2019
Olympic figure skating medalist Ashley Wagner performs as part of the Boston Skating Club's skating demonstrations
Wagner, a native of California, won the silver medal at the 2016 World Championships and a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
Members of the Boston Skating Club perform a skating demonstration as part of Boston's First Night 2019 celebrations
The Boston Skating Club know how to put on a show for the locals during First Night 2019 celebrations late Monday
Boston's First Night is an annual event featuring entertainment at Copley Square. It is a New England tradition dating back 40 years
It has been an eventful year in Boston, with the city's beloved professional baseball team, the Red Sox, capturing a World Series title
City officials said they expected an estimated 300,000 people to visit for the New Year's Eve celebrations
'I was here last year and loved it so much I had to come again,' Duke said.
'The energy here is really just what keeps you going.'
Justine Brenkel, 26, from Lyon, France, said being in Times Square on New Year's Eve was on her 'bucket-list.'
'It's unique. It's magic. It's New York,' she said - but the hours of waiting were turning it into a bit of a disappointment.
'When we watch it on TV, it looks so much fun, there's so much animation,' said Brenkel, who was attending the festivities with two friends.
Our neighbors to the north also partied hard into the new year. People are seen above skating in the rain during New Year's Eve celebrations at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto
Rain could not extinguish the flame of love that was burning between Andre Mimura (left) and Thais Derycke (right) as they kiss under their ponchos in Toronto on Monday
'But we're waiting for the show to start.'
As always, the celebration is taking place under tight security, with partygoers searched at checkpoints and herded into pens ringed by metal barricades.
Thousands of police officers patrolled with the help of bomb-sniffing dogs, 1,225 security cameras and 235 'blocker vehicles' used to stop potential vehicle attacks.
Police had planned to send up a drone to keep an eye on the festivities, but officials scrapped the flight due to the rain.
'It seemed like airport security,' said Lisa Carron, a 39-year-old preschool teacher also from Ontario.
'That should keep us safe.'
Once people enter the security pens, they can't come and go. So every year, a few restaurants in the square make deliveries.
The Times Square McDonald's sent employees out with trays and menus to take orders.
Carmen Diaz, one of the workers delivering food, yelled 'Happy New Year's' as she twirled on the sidewalk in a pink, cardboard fedora.
Husband and wife Bobby and Shivaraj Dhillon, from Watford, England, kept their spirits high by dancing to music playing over loudspeakers.
Shivaraj said she had a serious medical operation this year and that she and Bobby are planning on starting a family soon, making this New Year's Eve a perfect chance to do something adventurous.
'This is probably up there with my wedding day,' Shivaraj said.
The Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop was first inaugurated in 1907 by Adolph Ochs, who at the time owned The New York Times.
Ochs organized the event as a vehicle to promote the fact that Times Square was the new headquarters for America's 'newspaper of record'.
This year, the Times Square Alliance, the business association that organizes the event, is paying a special tribute to press freedom as part of the festivities, after a year in which journalists have come under attack around the world, including in the United States.
A minute before midnight, an invited group of journalists from ABC News, NBC News, the Washington Post, Reuters and other outlets will join Mayor Bill de Blasio in pushing the button to initiate the ball drop.
As in past years, the New York Police Department screened people entering the corrals, deployed sharpshooters on rooftops and used radiation detectors throughout the event.
While not quite having to brave Northeast-like weather conditions, it was expected to dip into the 40s in Los Angeles for the city's celebration. The image above shows Grand Park in downtown LA
Some 50,000 people were expected to attend the party in downtown Los Angeles late Monday night
It had planned to use an aerial drone for the first time to monitor the crowds, but canceled the effort on Monday evening given the weather conditions.
The organizers chose to honor press freedom and the contribution of journalists partly because of the deadly hostility that some reporters have faced this year.
Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi columnist for the Washington Post and a U.S. resident, was killed inside a Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey. In June, a gunman shot dead five employees of The Capital, a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.
This month also marked the first anniversary of the imprisonment in Myanmar of Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who had been working on a Reuters investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys by security forces and Buddhist civilians during an army crackdown.
Meanwhile, in Boston, hundreds of thousands were expected in Copley Square for the annual First Night New Year's Eve celebrations.
Musicians, skaters, and fireworks wowed the assembled crowd which braved heavy rains.
Olympic figure skating medalist Ashley Wagner performed as part of the Boston Skating Club's skating demonstration on Monday.
Wagner, a native of California, won the silver medal at the 2016 World Championships and a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The First Night celebration is a tradition in New England. It was first inaugurated some 40 years ago.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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