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
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Kelly Gonsalves is a sex and culture writer exploring love, lust, identity, and feminism. Her work has appeared at Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and more, and she previously worked as an associate editor for The Week. She's obsessed with badass ladies doing badass things, wellness movements, and very bad rom-coms.
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