Flagpole installation inHempstead, NY

Flagpoles in Hempstead

The commercial and institutional middle of Nassau County: the most populous village in New York, sitting inside the most populous town in the state, with a university, a transit hub and mile after mile of school, church and commercial frontage around it. We cover Hempstead and the Nassau County area, including Hofstra University, the Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center, Fulton Avenue and Main Street, Uniondale and the Nassau Coliseum site, Garden City and Mineola next door, the Hempstead Plains, and the barrier beaches at Lido Beach, Point Lookout and Atlantic Beach.

Wind here. Hempstead sits in a sandy and Atlantic-facing area, which works out to roughly 125 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. The town runs from the middle of Nassau County down to the Atlantic, and the design wind speed is not one number across it: roughly 120 mph on the mainland, roughly 130 mph down on the barrier beaches. So we work from the street address rather than the town name. Lido Beach and Point Lookout are not the same job as Fulton Avenue, and within a mile of the water at the higher figure the code also treats the ground as a windborne debris region, which changes what else on the building has to be rated. The digging is the second difference. This is outwash plain, the sand and gravel the glacier washed south, the same ground that left the Hempstead Plains as one of the few genuine prairies east of the Appalachians. Sand of that kind spreads a load far less willingly than clay, so the footing goes out wider than the height of the pole alone would suggest. Salt comes with the shore end of the town, which gets an anodized finish and bronze or stainless hardware from the first drawing rather than as a later upgrade.

Most of the people who call us from Hempstead are school districts and parish schools, university and college buildings, churches, village and town facilities, medical offices and clinics, car dealerships and commercial frontage, and shore properties down on the barrier beaches.