Service area

Junk removal in Flushing

Downtown Flushing is dense and busy. We work around the traffic and the tight curbs.

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Flushing's housing covers more ground than almost anywhere else we work. Downtown, condo towers now sit on top of the malls. Linden Hill and Electchester stack thousands of apartments in six-story brick co-ops from the early 1950s, and Pomonok adds a large public housing development in South Flushing. Out in Waldheim and Broadway-Flushing, the blocks turn to big houses from the estate-subdivision era. Each type sheds junk its own way: move-out furniture from the apartments, appliance swaps in the co-ops, and decades of accumulation in the houses.

The core is the hard part. Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue is the third-busiest intersection in New York City, behind only Times Square and Herald Square, and the 7 train ends right there at one of the busiest stations in the subway. We don't fight that corner. We stage the truck on the quieter blocks off Northern Boulevard, Kissena Boulevard, or Union Street, carry the last stretch, and set downtown jobs for early or late windows so the load-out beats the crowds.

Flushing is also rebuilding itself block by block. Waldheim has been losing old houses to teardowns for years, and multi-phase projects like Flushing Commons keep adding retail and housing downtown. That churn feeds our work twice: renovation and demolition debris on one end, and estate cleanouts on the other, when a house one family held for decades finally changes hands and everything inside has to go.

  • Main Street
  • Roosevelt Avenue
  • Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
  • Queens Botanical Garden
  • Kissena Park
  • Northern Boulevard

Busy streets, planned pickups

Downtown Flushing curbs fill up fast. We pick our timing and staging so the truck isn't blocking traffic and your pickup actually happens on schedule.

On the ground

What working in Flushing actually involves.

  • Six-story co-ops and elevator buildings

    Flushing's mid-century co-ops, Linden Hill, Mitchell Gardens, Linden Towers, and Electchester, hold thousands of apartments in six-story brick buildings. That means elevator jobs, not stair carries. We book the service elevator, send the certificate of insurance the board asks for, and pad the car before the first piece moves. Faster than any walk-up, as long as the paperwork is squared away, and we square it away.

  • Staying clear of the Main Street crush

    Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue is the third-busiest intersection in the city, and the 7 train ends at that corner, feeding it crowds all day. We don't park in the middle of that. We stage on the side blocks off Northern, Kissena, or Union, carry the last stretch, and take downtown pickups early or late so the truck spends its time loading instead of circling.

  • What we clear most here

    Restaurant and storefront cleanouts downtown, where floor space around the malls and food halls turns over fast. Move-out furniture and appliances from the apartment blocks and co-ops. Estate cleanouts in the old houses of Waldheim, Murray Hill, and Broadway-Flushing. And a steady run of renovation and demolition debris from the teardowns and the projects rising downtown.

How it works

Three steps, no runaround.

  1. 01

    Tell us what's going

    Call or send a few photos. We size up the job and give you a straight quote, no walk-through games.

  2. 02

    Free estimate in a day

    You get a firm price fast. Volume-based, so you only pay for the space your stuff takes in the truck.

  3. 03

    We haul it and sweep up

    Crew shows up on time, loads everything, and leaves the space cleaner than we found it.

Good questions

Flushing questions, answered.

Can you handle a six-story co-op building like Linden Hill or Electchester?

Yes, elevator buildings are some of our fastest jobs. We book the service elevator with management ahead of time, send a certificate of insurance if the board requires one, and pad the car before anything heavy moves. Linden Hill, Mitchell Gardens, Linden Towers, and Electchester all run the same way: straight down, straight out, no stairwell fights.

Do you do estate cleanouts in the older Flushing houses?

Yes, and Flushing produces a lot of them. Waldheim and Broadway-Flushing are full of big houses from the estate-subdivision era, many held by one family for decades. We clear them room by room, set aside what the family wants to keep or donate, and haul the rest, basement and garage included.

How fast can you get to Flushing? Do you do same-day?

Often, yes. We're based in South Slope, Brooklyn, so Flushing runs go on a route rather than off the cuff, but a morning call usually gets you cleared the same day. End-of-month lease weeks book first, so the earlier you call, the better your odds.

Do you take renovation and demolition debris in Flushing?

We do. Between the teardowns in Waldheim and the constant build-out downtown, Flushing generates a steady stream of it. We haul sheetrock, lumber, tile, cabinets, and fixtures from unit renovations and small demo jobs, and for longer projects we schedule repeat pickups so debris never stacks up on site.

New to us? Start with our Brooklyn & Queens junk removal home page for pricing and everything we haul.

Clearing out in Flushing?

Tell us what's going and we'll get you a firm price within a day, often the same day.

Find us

Strictly Junk Removal

294 20th St
Brooklyn, NY 11215

(917) 442-4135 Get directions