November on Hudson Street smells like wet leaves and cold pavement, and every yard in Hackensack is waiting on one last pass before the ground hardens. Kane Enterprises closes the season out — final cuts, edges tidied, cleanups that take beds and lawn down to something able to hold the winter. Then the equipment turns over: plowing driveways and lots, shoveling walks, salting the strips a second time when the wind off the river argues the point. March is the hinge, mud and thaw and the first hint that the grass is thinking about it. Mowing picks straight back up, and the year runs around again.