A shovel scraping a Pine Hills sidewalk at six in the morning carries a long way down a block of two-family porches. Snow removal for rental and multi-unit buildings is mostly about the parts people actually walk on: front walks, stoops, the path from a door to a car, salt on steps that shade keeps slick all day. Driveways and small lots get plowed, and the piles go where they won't hold a parking space hostage. Albany can lay down four inches between midnight and dawn, and tenants still leave for work at seven regardless. Getting there ahead of them is the whole of the service.