What is List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve?
On [[New Year's Eve]], several places (mostly in [[North America]]) mark the starts for New Years by lowering or raising an [[object]]. Many of these events have strong similarity to the [[Times Square]] [[New Year]]'s celebrations that began in [[New York City]] back in December 1907 when they rang in 1908. Three years before the Ball Drop got started was when Times Square began celebrating New Year's. The [[Times Square Ball]] lowering events take place one minute before midnight their time.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ball History|publisher=Times Square, Then and Now|url=https://timessquareball.net/ball-history|access-date=January 10, 2022}}</ref> Between 1½ billion and 2 billion people celebrate while looking at the New York Times Square Ball Dropping. ==Atlantic and Eastern Times== Other places in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] celebrate with other drops/object lowering and raising. These include the [[Miami]] Orange Drop,<ref>{{cite news|title=Big Orange Drops' Celebrations are Canceled Second Year Following Last|publisher=News at Yahoo|url=https://money.yahoo.com/big-orange-drop-eve-canceled-192503769.html|access-date=January 10, 2022}}</ref> a similar New Year's Eve dropping in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], a [[pineapple]] symbol lowered in [[Sarasota, Florida|Sarasota]], a [[sardine]] symbol lowering for [[Eastport, Maine]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Eastport Resumes its Tradition for the New Years Sardine Dropping|publisher=WABI TV|url=https://www.wabi.tv/2021/12/29/eastport-resumes-tradition-new-years-eve-sardine-maple-leaf-drop|access-date=January 10, 2022}}</ref> They also drop a maple leaf symbol on the [[Atlantic Time Zone|Atlantic Time]] celebrating when the New Year begins from there.<ref>{{cite news|title=Eastport Readies for the Annual Great Sardine Drop and Maple Leaf Dropping|work=The Calais Advertiser|url=https://www.calais.news/eastport-readies-annual-great-sardine-and-maple-leaf-drops|access-date=January 10, 2022}}</ref> In the city of [[York, Pennsylvania]], white [[rose]]s are lowered