A worker clears confetti from a sidewalk in Times Square after midnight on New Years Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013, in New York. With fireworks, concerts and celebrations from Hong Kong to New York, revelers welcome 2013 with hope for a better future after a year that thudded to a close with a disastrous storm, gun violence, and talk of economic turmoil from a looming fiscal cliff. This will be the first Times Square countdown in decades without Dick Clark, who died in April, and was honored with a tribute concert and his name printed on pieces of confetti.

Trash after the New Year's eve night is seen on Jan. 1, 2013 in Duesseldorf, western Germany.

Trash after the New Year's eve night is seen on a street on Jan.1, 2013 in Duesseldorf, western Germany.

The seven-foot-tall number "13," to be used atop One Times Square, arrives outside the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center in New York, on Dec 19. The numbers will be on display at the Museum until December 26th, at which point they will be installed atop One Times Square.

The seven-foot-tall number "13," to be used atop One Times Square, is seen on display in the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center in New York, on Dec. 19.