New York welcomes 2009
January 01, 2009 00:09 EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- They're celebrating in New York and the Eastern time zone, despite bitter cold and uncertainty about 2009.
Former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton helped Mayor Michael Bloomberg lower the ball atop 1 Times Square for the 60-second countdown to midnight.
Hundreds of thousands of revelers packed a frigid Times Square for the descent of the famous Waterford crystal ball. They were eager to say goodbye to 2008 and hoping to put the nation's economic troubles in the past.
The wind chill made it feel like 1 degree in the area, but that didn't deter the throngs who were bundled against the cold.
At the stroke of midnight many cheered and swayed to the recording of Frank Sinatra singing "New York, New York."
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