Downtown Flushing barely sleeps, so when snow arrives the lots behind Main Street and along Northern Boulevard have to be cleared between the last delivery and the first. GBC Snow Removal takes that window — plowing, shoveling, hauling snow off a property when there is nowhere left to stack it, and salting so the traffic that follows doesn't pack it into ice. Under the LIRR viaduct the shade keeps cold long after the open streets have gone wet, and those strips get worked twice. There is nothing decorative about any of it; a cleared lot is a business that opens. Then the lights come up along Main Street and the borough gets on with the day.