Weeks after canceling the annual New Year’s Eve fireworks show in Central Park due to historic drought conditions, organizers have decided to scrap a back-up plan to fly drones on Dec. 31. The New York Road Runners customarily shoot off fireworks during their midnight run in the popular Manhattan park,

The Central Park drone show on New Year's Eve has been canceled after a drone fell and severely injured a boy at a similar event in Florida.

The New York Road Runners cancelled its fleet of 500 drones less than a week before its annual midnight run event in a decision organizers say was out of their control.

A drone light show planned for Central Park on New Year’s Eve has been canceled after a drone show in Florida last weekend ended with drones falling from the sky and a child hospitalized.

The company in charge of the drone show, North Texas-based Sky Elements Drones, is the same company behind a holiday show in Orlando, Florida that injured a 7-year-old boy when he was hit by a falling drone.

A New Year's Eve drone show in Central Park has been canceled, according to the New York Road Runners. Not because of the local drone scares, but rather because it was being produced by the same vendor who was blamed for a disaster at a drone show in Florida.