In October the hawks ride the updraft along the Hudson bluff at Lenoir, and half of Yonkers spends the month ankle-deep in leaves. Emil Yedowitz Landscaping Solutions runs the fall rhythm — the closing cuts of the season, edging, bed cleanups, hauling the leaf drifts out of the corners where the wind stacks them. A yard raked down to the soil in late autumn is a promise made to April. There is a plain pride in it: bare turf, crisp borders, the driveway blown clean, and the wind free to take whatever it wants after that.