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• n  a worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department)

• street sweeper

News & Articles

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• Man Who Tackled Deranged Subway Stabber: "I'm Not A Hero, I'm Tired Of Senseless Killings"
  The street cleaner who charged down into a midtown subway station yesterday to disarm a knife-wielding woman says he "feels good" about what he did, but doesn't see himself as a hero. Charles Williams, a participant in The Doe Fund's Ready Willing & Able program , says that when he saw panicked straphangers fleeing the subway at Lexington Avenue and 59th Street, he initially thought it was a ...
  July 9, 2013 - Gothamist