Flushing movers for the Main Street towers and the houses out east
Downtown Flushing puts you behind a front desk, waiting on a freight-elevator slot with the truck parked on a busy block. East past Union Street and Parsons Boulevard you get a driveway and a side door instead. Tell us which one you're leaving and we build the day around it.
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Flushing changes shape as you go east. Around Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue the stock is high-rise and mid-rise condos and co-ops, so a move starts at a front desk, inside a freight-elevator window the management company hands you rather than one you pick. South of the shopping blocks, along Sanford Avenue and Kissena Boulevard, it drops to five and six story elevator co-ops, where the freight car is small and the corridor turn decides how the sofa comes out. Keep going east along Northern Boulevard, through Murray Hill and out to Auburndale, and it turns into detached and semi-detached houses with driveways, where the load goes out a side door and down the front steps to a truck already backed in.
Downtown, the managing agent wants a certificate of insurance on file with their office before a crew gets past the desk, so we send it over as soon as you tell us who runs the building, and we work to the slot you’ve been given. The loading zones along Main Street and College Point Boulevard get busy, which is why we aim for your door early rather than at midday, and why the lobby turn and the freight car get measured against your widest piece before the first box leaves the apartment.
Out east the questions are about doorways rather than front desks. A basement stairwell with a low header decides which way a couch has to turn on the way up, and an armoire crossing the lawn to the driveway goes out wrapped rather than bare. Plenty of Flushing moves run between the two halves of the neighborhood, a co-op near the end of the 7 line traded for a house off Northern Boulevard near the Murray Hill or Auburndale stop on the LIRR Port Washington branch, or the house traded back for somewhere with an elevator in it once the stairs stop being worth the trouble.
Start your quote with where you’re moving from and to, which floor you’re on at either end, and whether the truck is looking at a loading zone or a driveway. We’ll send you a flat price that holds for the date you want.
Moving in Flushing, in short
ZIP codes
11354 · 11355 · 11358
What you're moving out of
- High-rise and mid-rise condo and co-op buildings around Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue
- Managed elevator buildings where the agent sets the COI and the freight window
- Five and six story elevator co-ops along Sanford Avenue and Kissena Boulevard, where the freight car is small and the corridor turn decides the sofa
- Detached and semi-detached houses with driveways through Murray Hill and Auburndale
Streets we know well
- Main Street
- Roosevelt Avenue
- College Point Boulevard
- Kissena Boulevard
- Northern Boulevard
- Murray Hill
- Auburndale
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Flushing moving questions, answered
Where does the truck park for a move near Main Street?
Downtown blocks off Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue have loading zones that get busy, so we get the truck to your building early and use the service entrance or the dock where there is one. Our truck is allowed on the Main Street busway, though your own car is not once you have dropped off, so plan to leave it on a side street rather than idling out front. Out through Murray Hill and Auburndale it's simpler, because the truck backs into the driveway and the crew works off the side door. Give us your cross streets and we'll tell you before the day whether we're working off a dock, the service entrance or the curb, and what time the truck needs to be there to get it.
I'm in an elevator co-op off Kissena Boulevard. How does the elevator part work?
Managed buildings here hand out a freight-elevator window rather than an open door, and the car gets padded before a single box goes in it. Once the management company gives you the slot, send us the time and we schedule the crew to hit it. We walk the route from the entrance to the freight elevator first as well, so the corner where a mattress has to go up on its end is not a surprise.
We're in a semi-detached house in Auburndale. Is a house move different?
It's the same work with stairs standing in for the elevator. A house usually means a basement or a second floor to clear, a storm door off its hinges when a tall dresser needs the extra inch, and a lawn or a path to cross with the piece already wrapped. Bed frames and table legs come apart for the doorways, and the bolts go into a labeled bag taped to the frame they came off.
Does my Flushing building need a certificate of insurance?
Most of the managed condo and co-op buildings downtown do, and the managing agent decides the exact wording that has to appear on it. Tell us who runs the building and what they want named on it, and we send the certificate to their office in the days before your move rather than sorting paperwork at the front desk on moving morning. The houses out toward Murray Hill and Auburndale don't ask for one.
It's only a one-bedroom we're moving. Is that too small for you?
Not at all. A one-bedroom or a studio books the same way anything else does. The price is flat and agreed before the day whether it's a whole house or a single room going, and we work it off your inventory and the two buildings rather than the hours it takes. Send us what's coming with you and where it's headed, and we'll send you a quote.
What if the new place isn't ready when we have to be out?
Then we hold your things in storage until the keys turn up, and bring them back out when you're ready for them. Sofas and mattresses go in padded and covered rather than sitting bare on a rack, and the storage sits inside the same quote as the two moving legs instead of arriving as a separate bill later.