Peekskill wakes in layers: the river first, then the flats, then the hill streets that climb away from the water. Riverview Landscaping is out ahead of all of it, headlights swinging up the grades while the Hudson still holds the dark. There are driveways and lots to open, walks to shovel down to bare surface, salt and sand laid on the pitches where gravity wants to argue. By the time the first cars roll down toward the station, the pavement is black and the piles are stacked where they belong, out of the sightlines. Snow gives this town its hush, and the work is making sure that hush never costs anyone their morning. Storm-season plowing and ice work for Peekskill and the towns around it.