Behind Fairview's two-family houses the yards step down the hill in terraces, each one a little green shelf held up by block wall and stubbornness. J&A LANDSCAPING LLC works those levels through the growing season, mowing what can be mowed, trimming what cannot, and keeping the walls and stair edges free of the grass that wants to swallow them. September is a good month here — the heat easing, the cut coming up thick and clean, the light gone amber by six. Nothing on this ground is flat or square, so every property gets read before it gets cut. Done well, a stack of small back yards looks like one long garden falling down the slope.