A mechanical broom getting ready to start a route in Brooklyn.

Good Things: Street Sweeper Ballet

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Amy Pearl
WNYC News | May 18, 2022

Get three New Yorkers in a room and you’ll get four opinions about alternate side parking. But what about a street sweeper’s eye view? WNYC’s Amy Pearl followed along.

music:
JOHANN STRAUSS: The Blue Danube - Waltz
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Szell, conductor
Recorded June 23, 1934

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