A great first stop in Ball Square is checking out this bakery. If you only have time for one thing, make sure it’s Lyndell’s. Open since 1887, it’s hands down the best business in the square and holds ...

Lightbulbs, a new technology at the time, were used to create a lighted time ball. It would drop over Times Square for the first time on New Year's Eve 1907. That first ball was six feet in ...