The celebrations at Times Square in New York City will kick off in less than a week, with star-studded performances and an exciting countdown.

Organizers of the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration screwed the last crystals onto the ball that will usher in 2025.

The last of the crystal triangles that make up this year's Times Square New Year's Eve ball were installed on Friday morning, marking the first time in 10 years that all 2,688 were replaced at once. Rapper Pitbull and inventor Joy Mangano were among those on hand to help the organizers of the celebration put the final pieces in

The crystal ball for Times Square's New Year's Eve celebration was just unveiled. CBS News New York's John Dias reports.

"You are really paying for the real estate, to be in the area and ultimately to get a view of the ball drop at midnight,” BallDrop.com founder Joshua Perla told the New York Post last year, when Applebee's tickets started at a comparatively modest $650.

Starting at 11am at the Times Square Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th Streets on Thursday, December 19, One Times Square will invite the public to change out the ball’s current Waterford Crystal triangles, which will be on a one-of-a-kind display, for the newly designed triangles for 2025—the ones that will descend on December 31.

Rapper Pitbull helped put the finishing touches to Times Square's New Year's Eve ball as it was unveiled on Friday ahead on next week's infamous ball drop to mark the start of 2025.

Here's what conditions will look and feel like on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. It will feel seasonably warm in North Jersey on New Year's Eve, as AccuWeather is calling for temperatures to hover around a relatively mild 49 degrees on Tuesday,

Silvia Lupone first experienced New Year’s Eve in Times Square in 2010, when she was 28. “I cannot explain how important this was to me and how I wished to experience it all my life,” said Lupone, who lives in Port Jefferson and has gone many times since.