The first cut of the year in East Orange usually lands in April, when five o'clock light runs long and gold down Springdale Avenue. L Vega Property Services LLC makes that pass and every one that follows — mowing straight through the season, trimming close where a mower can't reach, cutting a clean line where lawn meets concrete, clearing beds at both ends of the year. City properties ask for consistency above all else: the same day, the same height, the same finish. By June the lawns are dense and the schedule is unforgiving; by November it is leaves and one last low cut. There is real pride in handing back a property that looks composed from the sidewalk.