There is a specific quiet to Long Beach in January, when snow lies on the boardwalk planks and the ocean keeps making noise behind it. NY Snow removal works while that quiet holds — plowing driveways, clearing walkways and front steps, salting and de-icing the entries, running the cleanup once the storm has moved off to sea. Ocean-side snow comes heavy and it comes with wind, so a drive cleared at midnight may want a second look at dawn. It gets the second look. The measure of a good night here is an island where every car can get out, and nobody had to think about how.