Every New Year’s Eve, one ton (907 kilograms) of confetti falls on revelers in New York City’s Times Square. But not all confetti is made equal. Included in that mass of fluttering paper are the wishes of both visitors to the official website of Times Square and the Times Square Visitor Center on Seventh Avenue between 46th and 47th streets. The wishes, whether scribbled by hand or printed from the web, are displayed on the Visitor Center’s Wishing Wall (above) until December 31, when they are mixed among the rest of the confetti that will shower down on the evening party.
Among the thousands of contributors, celebrities offered their own wishes for 2012, such as actor Matthew Broderick (“Peace”) and CNN medical correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta (“My wish is that no child go to bed hungry in 2012 or ever after — whether you live in Mogadishu or Manhattan. This, we can do.”)