Hicksville is roughly twenty minutes east of the shop on Old Country Road. It has the busiest commuter parking in Nassau, and that is where most of our work here happens: the van meets the car in the lot or the garage, replaces the glass, and it is ready before the evening train arrives.
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If the station-lot problem has a capital city, it is Hicksville. The stop here handles more riders than anywhere else on Long Island, and the parking around it, surface lots and structures alike, fills to capacity every weekday morning. Thousands of cars stand there for eleven or twelve hours doing nothing whatsoever. For a glass shop that is not a nuisance, it is an opportunity, because the single hardest thing about fixing a windshield for a commuter is finding a time when the car and the work can be in the same place.
The town itself is more industrial and more commercial than the villages nearer our address. Broadway runs the retail spine, Old Country Road brings you west toward us, and the yards and light industry off the roads to the west of the station generate their own steady stream of chipped and broken glass on work vehicles. We take those at the shop when it suits, but for anything involving a car that commutes, the lot is where we prefer to meet it.
Hicksville is laid out around the railway and the roads that feed it. Broadway carries the shopping traffic north and south with a shopping centre and a long run of retail, Old Country Road heads west toward Westbury and Mineola, and Duffy Avenue and the streets west of the station serve the commercial and industrial yards. The Northern State and the expressway both have ramps within a short drive, which is part of why so many people from further out park here and take the train. The commuter parking is the practical detail for us: large lots and multi-level structures, tightly packed by eight in the morning. We ask for a level, a row and a plate, and we will find the car without calling you off a meeting to describe where you left it.
“Great experience with Gary. Easy scheduling, had everything done in two hours despite having just come back from vacation and being super busy, and the windshield and workmanship looks great. Even put my new registration sticker on for me…”
Two things dominate here. The first is the volume of highway driving, since Hicksville sits within reach of the expressway and the parkways, and long daily mileage on those roads means a windshield collects pits the way a windscreen anywhere collects insects. Winter sand thrown from a lane over is the most common single cause we can point at. The second is the industrial side of town, where yards and depots track stone onto the road surface and heavier vehicles fling it further. Add to that the sheer number of cars standing unattended in commuter parking every weekday, which is where broken door windows come from, and you have a town that keeps us busy in every category we offer.
Coming to us, the easy line is Old Country Road heading west through Westbury and Carle Place into Mineola, then north on Willis Avenue into Williston Park to 708. Twenty minutes on a normal run, more if you hit the retail traffic. Jericho Turnpike is the alternative from the northern side of town. For most Hicksville customers, though, the shop trip does not make sense, so the van goes east instead. Give us the lot or garage level, the row, the plate and a way to get in, and the glass is done while you are somewhere between Jamaica and Penn Station.
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We do it regularly. The requirements are simple: an accessible space with a bit of room beside the car, a way in, and dry conditions for the adhesive to bond. In a multi-level structure we check the headroom first. The car needs to sit still for around an hour after the install so the urethane reaches its safe drive-away point, which a commute covers easily.
Most people leave the vehicle unlocked in a monitored lot, or arrange to drop a spare key with us beforehand. We will agree the details when you book rather than improvising on the day. If neither option suits, we can schedule the visit for a work-from-home day or a weekday when the car is in your own driveway instead.
Yes, and the yards on the west side of Hicksville send us a fair amount of it. Windshields, door glass and rear panels for vans and pickups are all routine, sourced by year and model like anything else. If a broken window is keeping a vehicle off the road, tell us when you call and we will treat it as a priority rather than slotting it into next week.
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