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Who’s performing at tonight’s Times Square ball drop to ring in New Year’s Eve 2024?

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Who’s performing at tonight’s Times Square ball drop to ring in New Year’s Eve 2024?

Before tonight's ball drop in New York's Times Square rings in 2024 on the East Coast, revelers can spend the waning hours of New Year's Eve watching performers celebrate the beginning of the new year with music and dance.Here's what you need to know about the performers in Times Square on New Year's Eve:Full list of New Year's Eve performersAGNEW, a New York dance groupFlo Rida, joined by Sage the GeminiJelly RollLL Cool JMaria BecerraMegan Thee StallionSabrina CarpenterTriad Brass, a five-piece brass band with Grammy Award-winner Jonathan AronsTylaYng LvcasWhen is Flo Rida performing on New Year's Eve?Grammy-nominated rapper Flo Rida is expected to perform from 9:10 p.m. to 9:29 p.m. EST, according to organizers of the Times Square event. Rapper Sage the Gemini will join him to perform ...

NYPD ‘prepared’ for large pro-Palestine protests during New Year’s Eve bash at Times Square

There are no known security threats related to this weekend’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, but the NYPD is gearing up for the possibility that thousands of pro-Palestine protesters will be demonstrating nearby, Mayor Adams and police officials said Friday. In an afternoon security briefing outside the NYPD’s Times Square substation, Adams said the Police Department is still on high alert, citing an incident at last year’s Times Square ball drop event where a Maine teenager allegedly attacked three NYPD officers with a machete. “There are no specific threats to the city, but as we saw last year, you don’t have to have a specific threat to get a threat, and we’re going to be ready,” said the mayor, who was joined by top NYPD leaders. Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a New Year’...

Nigerian Food with a Little Times Square Glitz

Some skepticism is warranted whenever a restaurant has a Times Square address. “You know, I suggested we come to this restaurant kind of as a joke,” the writer and recipe developer Yewande Komolafe told me recently, spooning out a serving of pepper soup at Lagos TSQ, a three-story Nigerian restaurant-cum-night club on Seventh Avenue near Forty-eighth Street, a block from the TKTS booth and just across the street from the enormous M&M’s store. I had asked Komolafe, who is the author of the new cookbook “My Everyday Lagos,” to bring me to one of her favorite Nigerian spots in the city. It turns out that list is short—practically nonexistent.Lagos TSQ727 Seventh Ave.(Dishes $12-$90.)The Nigerian essayist Yemisí Aríbisálà has described the nation’s food as “not yet given its due.” She wri...