West End Lawn and Snow

About West End Lawn and Snow

On Binghamton's west side the morning starts at the water — fog easing off the Susquehanna, the bridges going pale, Riverside Drive quiet enough to hear a shovel scrape. West End Lawn and Snow keeps its hours by that river, out before the streetlights blink off so the first car down a driveway meets bare pavement instead of a drift. Winter here is not shy; the hills that cup this city collect storm after storm, and every plowed lane and cleared walk is a small argument won against a long gray sky. Then the thaw turns the valley loud and green, and the work changes hands: mowing, trimming, a crisp edge run along the sidewalk until a whole block of porch-front houses looks tended. Two rivers, plenty of grass, plenty of snow to move — and the same steady attention given to both.