Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Bellmore, NY

Bellmore is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, about 27 miles east of Manhattan.

Together with its northern neighbor, Bellmore and North Bellmore are referred to collectively as 'The Bellmores.'

In 1643 the area was a farming and fishing settlement known as 'Little Neck' and 'New Bridge,' settled primarily by English families who crossed Long Island Sound from Connecticut.

When the railroad was built through the area in 1867, the station was arbitrarily named Bellmore, and the community officially took the name in 1900 when its post office was established.

The 2020 census counted 16,297 people in Bellmore, in 5,572 households, nearly two-thirds of them married-couple households.

Census QuickFacts puts the median value of an owner-occupied home in Bellmore at $681,800 for 2020-2024, among the higher values on Long Island's South Shore.

Bellmore's Long Island Rail Road station on the Babylon Branch gives residents a direct ride of typically 45 minutes to Penn Station in Manhattan.

Bellmore lies just 6 miles north of Jones Beach State Park, one of the most popular ocean beaches in the New York metropolitan area.

The Bellmore Memorial Library was founded in 1948 and began in an old schoolhouse.

Older Bellmore students attend the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, one of only a handful of central high school districts in New York, at schools such as John F. Kennedy High School and Wellington C. Mepham High School.