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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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by Kelly Gonsalves
January 1, 2018

Times Square, New York City, 2015.

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(Stephen Chernin/Getty Images)These days, crowds begin to swarm Times Square in the late afternoon of Dec. 31, standing in designated areas along 7th Avenue and Broadway stretching as far nor

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2016.

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