Happy New Year.A crowd estimated by New York police at 900,000 persons fills times Square, at midnight, Dec.31, to welcome in the New Year. Revelers pushed and Jostled each other moments before the "Bewitching Hour", cut at the stroke of midnight each turned to the other to bid him "Happy Returns of the Day." Photo made from A Balcony on the Hotel Aston on Broadway between 44th and 45 streets. January 1, 1947. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).