The rugs we collect from Rockville Centre, Merrick, Bellmore and Freeport
Rockville Centre and Lynbrook are older villages with substantial pre‑war housing, and their rugs run to mid‑century Persians, Sarouks, Kermans and Kashans, Chinese 90‑line rugs, and inherited pieces. Malverne and East Rockaway are similar on a smaller scale. Baldwin, Freeport, Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh and Valley Stream are largely post‑war, capes, splits and colonials, with the full range of family rugs: Bokharas and Indo‑Persians from the 1980s, tufted wool and machine‑made rugs, Moroccans and viscose in the renovations, and a good number of hand‑knotted rugs that came from parents and grandparents in Brooklyn and Queens.
What sets this stretch apart is water. The south sides of Baldwin, Freeport, Merrick, Bellmore and Wantagh are canal and bayfront neighborhoods at low elevation. They flooded badly in Sandy and they still flood on high tides and nor'easters, and the rugs come to us afterward bled, salt‑stiff and mildewing. Pipe bursts, sump failures and washing‑machine floods add to it inland. The water‑damage process, same‑week pickup, sanitizing wash, stabilized bleed correction, fast drying, was refined on this route.
Rugs are rolled pile‑out on a tube and wrapped for the route to Farmingdale.
