Happy New Year! NYC ushers in 2022 with Times Square ball drop

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Happy New Year! NYC ushers in 2022 with Times Square ball drop
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A scaled-back crowd will embrace the new year — and bid good riddance to another pandemic-marred 12 months — at the annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square.

Eric Adams is set to begin a new era for New York City, becoming the city's second African-American Mayor early Saturday morning after the ball drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve. But with COVID cases surging, he has a lot on his plate.

Mary Gonzalez stood a few feet behind a crowd, wanting to keep her distance from anyone unwittingly carrying the virus. Times Square is often referred to as the crossroads of the world, and city officials insisted on holding the marquee New Year’s Eve event to demonstrate the city's resiliency even amid a resurgence of the coronavirus.

COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have soared to their highest levels on record at over 265,000 per day on average. New York City reported a record number of new, confirmed cases — nearly 44,000 — on Wednesday and a similar number Thursday, according to New York state figures. But Mayor Bill de Blasio, who relinquished oversight of the nation's most populous city at the stroke of midnight, said the festivities at Times Square would "show the world that New York City is fighting our way through this."

A New York City tour guide, she was unemployed for a spell as the economy was shuttered and tourism tanked.

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