From the high blocks of Mount Pleasant you can see the Manhattan skyline riding above the rooftops, and on a clear spring morning that view makes even a small Newark backyard feel like a balcony. Home and Lawn Solutions works those northern streets — mowing, trimming along the retaining walls, edging the front walks, clearing winter grit out of the yard before the growing season really gets underway. The ground up here drops away in terraces, so half these lawns sit on a slope and none of them mow themselves. A tidy hillside yard makes a quiet argument that the whole house is in good order. That is what gets left behind, week after week.