Drivers who failed to dig out while the snow from our late-January storm was still soft are now contending with thick walls of ice cocooning their vehicles. And while there’s something almost sculptural about the mounds that have formed around these cars, something has to give eventually. Unless people are willing to surrender their Subarus to the earth, they will have to dig out. Or pay someone else to. For the determined, liberating people’s cars from the ice can mean a quick source of income. We chatted with Danny, an unemployed tech worker living in Greenpoint, who is cleaning up around the city — both in the literal sense and the sense that he charges a minimum of $119 per dig. “Depending on how deep the vehicle is buried,” per his flyer.
