Times Square on New Year's to be 'safest place'

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

NEW YORK -- With the nation jittery over shooting massacres in California and Paris, New York City officials sought to assure revelers Tuesday the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square will be the safest place in the world -- heavily secured by thousands of New York Police Department officers, including a new counterterrorism unit.

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