A&L Snow Removal

About A&L Snow Removal

At three in the morning the Ironbound is quiet in a way it never is otherwise — Ferry Street empty, bakery vents breathing steam, snow filling in the parking spaces one flake at a time. A&L Snow Removal is out in it with the plow down, opening driveways and lots so the first shift can get moving and the deliveries can reach the door. Newark storms come in wet and heavy and set up like concrete if you let them sit, so the answer is passes: early, often, and once more before daylight. Shovels finish what a blade can never reach — stoops, side doors, the narrow walks between houses. By the time the sun finds the rooftops, the de-icer is spread and the whole street is moving again.