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Summary
Sanitation worker, JR Luna sweeps up from the New Year celebration, New York City, 01 January, 2009.

Statistics:
 * 89 workers
 * 13 mechanical brooms
 * 9 collection trucks
 * 75 hand brooms or blowers
 * area to be cleaned: between 34th Street and 59th Street and between 6th and 8th Avenues
 * hours: December 31, 2008 at 11:00 p.m. to January 1, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
 * estimated amount of garbage: 42 tons (average from previous years)

Robert Stolarik for The New York Times, found at: New York Times, story: After the Big Party, the Big Cleanup, Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company.