Times Square in NY set to ring in 2012
Posted Dec 31, 2011 03:36:57 AM.
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NEW YORK — Times Square is ready to welcome hordes of New Year’s Eve revelers looking to cast off a rough year and cheer their way to something better in 2012.
New York City always treats it like a big party — albeit one that, for a decade now, has taken place under the watchful eye of a massive security force.
Pessimism has no place on Broadway — not this week, anyway.
The tourists who began streaming through the square Friday were there to kiss, pose for silly snapshots and gawk at the stages being prepared for performers like Lady Gaga and Canada’s own Justin Bieber.
A new Associated Press-GfK poll suggests 62 per cent of Americans are optimistic their nation’s fortunes will improve in 2012.
