page_title: List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve
section_title: New Jersey
hierarchical_section_title: List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve / List of drops or raises by time zone and location / North American Eastern Time Zone / New Jersey
caption_attribution_description: Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi attending a party in Chicago
context_page_description: On New Year's Eve, many localities in America mark the beginning of a year through the raising or lowering of an object. Many of these events are patterned off festivities that have been held at New York City's Times Square since 1908, where a large crystal ball is lowered down a pole atop One Times Square. In turn, the event was inspired by the time balls used by ship navigators in the 19th century to calibrate their chronometers.
  Whilst some of these events use a ball in imitation of Times Square, many "drops" utilize objects that represent an aspect of local culture, geography, or history. Ball drops are by far the most common in, but not exclusive to, the United States.
context_section_description: Hammonton, New Jersey: A blueberry was dropped to commence the year 2018.
  Point Pleasant, New Jersey: "The Millennium Mossbunker," a mossbunker fish, was dropped for the year 2000.
  Seaside Heights, New Jersey: Snooki from MTV's reality series Jersey Shore (which is set in Seaside Heights) was lowered inside a ball in 2011 for the network's New Year's Eve special. While the drop was originally to be held inside MTV's studios at Times Square alongside its more famous counterpart, city officials asked MTV not to do so.
caption: Nicole Polizzi dropped in Seaside Heights in 2011.
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