Where do they do the annual New Year 's Eve Ball drop at ?
However , for the millennium celebration on December 31 , 1999 , published reports stated approximately two million people overflowed Times Square , flowing from 6th Avenue to 8th Avenue and all the way back on Broadway and Seventh Avenues to 59th Street , making it the largest gathering in Times Square since August 1945 during celebrations marking the end of World War II .