Danny DiLorenzo (Lawrence Schwartzwald)
While the blizzard buried the city in misery for three days, Danny DiLorenzo turned the snow into cold, hard cash.
The mercenary plower shoveled in $10,000 since the storm kicked up Sunday — that’s $500 an inch.
DiLorenzo, 41, who runs a glass and storefront business when it’s not snowing, said that behind the wheel of his white pickup, which advertises, “No favors, F- -k You Pay Me,” the streets seemed paved with gold.
“Everybody wants to be your best friend on days like this, but I only took jobs that were worth my while,” DiLorenzo. “I’m not going to do people’s driveways or anything like that.”
In addition to a stable of clients in Brooklyn and Queens whose businesses he’s on contract to plow, the work “started to spiral” through referrals, and “I was doing one parking lot after another.”
“I’ve been doing this 15 years, and this was a rough storm,” he said, noting his rates double after 12 inches of snow, and increase to 2½ times his usual rate at 18 or more inches.
DiLorenzo says he didn’t think the city’s plows were working in earnest but conceded the storm posed challenges.
“There were 50 mph winds to contend with,” he said. “I even got stuck a couple of times.”