October arrives early in the Stockade, where Schenectady's oldest streets lean down toward the Mohawk and the sycamores let go all at once. joel lawn care & clean up works that stretch of the year hard — mowers still running through the warm afternoons, then rakes and blowers moving leaf drifts off brick walks and out from along the curbs on Front Street. When the flats go quiet and white, the same truck comes back with a plow on it, opening driveways before the river fog has lifted off the water. It is work with a visible ending: a yard cut back to clean grass, a path a person can cross without watching their feet. Lawn care and cleanups in the green months, snow clearing in the cold ones, kept in one steady pair of hands.