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New Year's Eve ball to be re-lit and stay out all year

Two men install the final 2 crystal panels that make up the giant Waterford ball that annually drops over Times Square marking the new year In New York City on December 27, 2012. The famous New Year's Eve Ball descends from a flagpole atop One Times Square with an estimated one million people watching below. UPI/John Angelillo

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Published: Jan. 2, 2013 at 5:30 PM

NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Times Square New Year's Eve ball will be re-lit and sent up the 130-foot pole atop Manhattan's One Times Square where it will stay all year, officials said.

Event co-producers Jeff Straus, president of Countdown Entertainment, and Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, will preside over Thursday afternoon's raising and relighting of the ball, which was used to ring in 2013 this week.

The ball traditionally is only on display for the new year holiday.

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