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More Times Square Trash for New Year's!
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 2, 2009
Modified Jan 2, 2009
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Photograph of a sanitation worker sweeping up New Year's celebration trash in Times Square by Tina Fineberg/AP
Yesterday, just after midnight, the over 160 Department of Sanitation employees headed to Times Square to clean up after the New Year's revelers. According to 1010 WINS, that crew worked until 8 a.m., and then another shift came in at 11 a.m. to further "tidy" up the area. It's believed that over 41 tons of garbage were collected, but since there were 25 mph winds, it's hard to say exactly how much detritus they picked up. Sanitation Commission John Doherty said, "It takes a while. Last night was a windy night. There's probably confetti as far as the East River."
And the Times Square Alliance believes that a million people braved the freezing temperatures to ring in 2009 in Times Square.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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