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Photos: Times Square Just Before Sunrise On New Year's Day
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Jen Carlson
Published Jan 2, 2016
Modified Jan 4, 2016
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Times Square during its transitional hour just around 5 a.m. is a strange scene, when one of the busiest places on earth takes a pause and momentarily presents as empty and quiet. This movement from a state of chaos into total stillness is even more jarring in the early morning hours of New Year's Day, when crowds of NYE revelers have departed and left a colorful mess behind.
Photographer Gretchen Robinette ventured to the Crossroads of the World at 5:45 a.m. on January 1st, where she found street sweepers covered in confetti and stragglers white-knuckling on to the night. And the DSNY shoveling some of the city's prettiest trash...
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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