Valley Stream

At City Gates we repair, design, fabricate and install rolling steel doors and coiling store front grille gates for commercial and industrial buildings and retail stores. We have an immediately response time and will provide 24 hour 7 days a week 365 days a year emergency overhead doors & rolling gate and all door repairs service, no matter how big or small your job is. We can do customized in many styles and sizes of roll up door & gate and security grills to accommodate all of your Rolling & security gates.


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Valley Stream is a village in Nassau County inside the southwestern part of the Town of Hempstead. The village is served by the ,Long Island Rail Road. The area was purchased in 1640 by the Dutch West India Company from the Rockaway tribe and the land went undeveloped for two centuries. By 1840 there were 20 families, with private farms living in the area and it was called Fosters Meadow. The Village of Valley Stream was incorporated in 1925.

The developer who brought the area its name (and first post office) was a Scottish man by the name of Robert Pagan. He and his family petitioned for a post office which was in his home and soon named the area “Valley Stream” after the topographical appearance of the area. By 1843, the U.S. Post Office accepted the name of Valley Stream. Robert Pagan’s wife Ellen helped to develop the area by holding Methodist services from her home and changed the family name from Pagan to Payan. The historic Pagan-Fletcher mansion can still be visited on Hendrickson Avenue. In 1922 developer William R. Gibson came to Valley Stream, bought 500 acres and built homes on Avondale, Berkely, Cambridge, Derby and Elmwood Streets. It was Gibson was petitioned for the LIRR to build a station in Valley Stream to accommodate the new class of white-collar commuters his homes were designed for. The LIRR station in Valley Stream was named Gibson station.

The students of Valley Stream attend school in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District #14, the Valley Stream School District #13, the Valley Stream School District #24, the Valley Stream School District #30 and the Valley Stream Central High School District.

Notable residents of Valley Stream include actor/director Steve Buscemi, novelist Eileen Charbonneau, actress Patricia Charbonneau, reggae singer Shaggy, swimmer Jack Wagner and Orchestrator Steve Orich.

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CITY-GATES was chosen by a world wide leader in the construction management industry to provide overhead coiling doors to well known retail store chain in the South East. The slide show you are looking at is one of fifteen trailers that were needed to deliver 225 doors to various sites throughout the South Eastern United States. The customer placed an order for our Model CG300 rolling steel doors. All of the doors were constructed from 20 gage galvanized steel slats, angle iron bottom bars, angle iron guides, counter balanced torsion springs, chain hoist operated and motorized. The size of the doors ranged from 6 feet wide to 35 feet wide. Please contact our special contracts department if you have a similar requirement.