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Picture: Trash Towers Over People As NYC Thaws

  • January 3, 20116:30 pm PST
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With the snow melted and the city's municipal workers back to performing their regular duties rather than frantically clearing roads, New York City's sanitation department has a tough job ahead of it today—cleaning up all the waste that had been buried under feet-high snow mounds. Here, a scene from Pearl Street in lower Manhattan, where the garbage heaps are apparently as tall as men (also, notice the Christmas tree).

photo via GOOD contributing editor Alex Goldmark

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