Local company to provide balloons for Times Square, CNY events

For the 30th consecutive year, Balloon AffAIRs, based in Baldwinsville, will be providing the balloons for the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square.

Balloon AffAIRs owner, award-winning Certified Balloon Artist, Danny Magowan, and his crew will inflate 25,000 specially made balloons with streamers, which will be distributed to the revelers gathered in Times Square to watch the famous Ball come down at midnight.  Simultaneously, another Balloon AffAIRs crew will be on hand at Turning Stone Resort and Casino doing the balloon drops and confetti effects throughout the resort as well as at their Yellow Brick Road casino in Chittenengo, Lake House in Sylvan Beach and Point Place casino in Bridgeport.

Magowan and his crew will also be part of his friend Treb Heining’s crew producing the confetti release that fills Times Square at midnight.

Magowan has also worked with Heining helping to produce balloon and confetti drops at the last five Republican National Conventions, including the RNC in 2004 in Madison Square Garden when Danny recruited the Baldwinsville High School Marching Band to help with inflation of the balloons.  In 2016 Magowan worked with Heining on the balloon drops for both the Republican and the Democratic National Conventions.

Magowan has also done balloon drops and décor for Rascal Flatts, Trey Anastasio, Kenny G, TV Land Awards, the NFL Hall of Fame Game and grand openings for the National Inventor’s Museum, Cleveland Browns Stadium, the New York State Fair, the world premiere of Time Warner Cable/Road Runner and many other events.  He was also retained to provide authentic Time Square New Year’s balloons for the 2011 Garry Marshall film “New Year’s Eve.”