Oneida Square is where several of Utica's old avenues meet, and the houses around it wear their yards close and formal — narrow strips of lawn, stone steps, hedges pressed up against the porch. Rivera's Masonry & Home Services keeps that kind of ground looking cared for, mowing the small lawns, trimming tight to the walls and edging where grass meets stone. Late spring is the busy turn, when everything grows at once and the leftovers of winter still need clearing. Hedges get shaped, beds get mulched, and the leaves come off in October. On a compact city lot, neatness is the entire design.