Wind comes hard across the top of the Palisades in January, and the snow that lands on these short steep driveways sets up fast between parked cars. Decarlo Landscape Design & Maintenance plows and shovels that ground, driveway aprons, the walks and steps that climb to a front door, salt on the pitch where ice forms first. When the thaw arrives the work turns to mowing, edging, trimming and the cleanups that bring a small yard back after a long winter. Palisades Park gives no room to maneuver, which makes a fully cleared walk a matter of patience more than horsepower. Getting a car out of a driveway before the school bell is its own reward.