Now Lighting Up Times Square: Four Numbers Whose Time Has Come

A brilliant 2025 sign is available for street-level photos until Dec. 23. Then it goes to the top of the One Times Square skyscraper.

Seven-foot-tall numerals for "2025" arrive in Duffy Square on the Times Square Plaza ahead of New Year's Eve, on Dec. 18, 2024. Oliver Mantyk/Epoch Times

NEW YORK CITY–On a surprisingly warm, cloudy winter morning, four giant numbers were set down in Times Square. A crowd gathered to watch the future illuminate.

The 7-foot “2025” numerals were presented in Time Square on Dec. 18, ushering in excitement for the new year.