Cleaning up the biggest New Year's mess in America

While the rest of us head to bed in the early hours of Jan. 1, New York's sanitation team gets to work

Times Square in New York City on January 1, 2012.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.