Staten Island Landscape

About Staten Island Landscape

Todt Hill stands high enough that weather reaches it a beat before the rest of the borough — the first flakes, the first thaw, the first green after a wet March. Staten Island Landscape works the ridge and the streets that fall away from it, mowing and edging through the growing months and plowing driveways open when a storm banks over the Greenbelt's oaks. There is a particular satisfaction in a hillside lawn cut along the contour, and another in a steep drive salted before anyone has to guess at it. Snow arrives here sideways off the water and piles wherever the wind decides, so the answer is coming early and coming back. Green in season and bare pavement in winter are the same promise, kept twice a year.