The lots come first. After a storm has run all night over Bergen County, the asphalt along Route 46 and the service roads has to be open before the first car turns in, and AT Line Striping LLC is out in the dark making that happen. Plow blades push the aisles wide, shovels take the walks and door aprons, and salt goes down where meltwater will try to refreeze by sunrise. It is unglamorous three-in-the-morning work, and there is real satisfaction in a cleared lot under the sodium lights with the pavement showing through again. Elmwood Park wakes up able to get where it is going.