Valley Stream is a village in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.

In the year 1640, 14 years after the arrival of Dutch colonists in Manhattan (New Amsterdam), the area that is now Valley Stream was purchased by the Dutch West India Company from Rockaway Native Americans (they were a Lenape, or Delaware, band, known by the place where they lived).

At this time, the community did not have a post office, so residents had to pick up their mail in the village of Hempstead.

After Pagan petitioned authorities for a post office, he was appointed postmaster and it was based in his farmhouse, now known as the Pagan-Fletcher House.

A Methodist minister was hired for periodic stops at the Pagan home, and the first congregation in Valley Stream was founded.

In 1853, Hempstead Turnpike was the only road that connected Valley Stream to Jamaica and New York City.

The main streets in Valley Stream that connected the small village to the turnpike were Mill Road (which is Corona Avenue today) in the west, Sand Street (Central Avenue) in the south, and Dutch Broadway in the north.

With the new thoroughfare in the area, Valley Stream residents and industry began to move southward.

The new railroad, combined with the emergence of Merrick Road as a major artery, stimulated growth in Valley Stream, and it became a substantial community.

Around the start of the 20th century, Hendrickson Park was a prime vacationing destination for people from Brooklyn and Queens.

He bought 500 acres (2.0 km2) of land on Roosevelt Avenue and built homes on Avondale, Berkeley, Cambridge, Derby, and Elmwood streets.

Realizing that his development was perfectly designed for white-collar commuters, he petitioned the Long Island Railroad for a stop.

The impact, which broke the fibula and tibia in both legs, threw Falcone approximately thirty feet through the air and into a frozen creek.

This incident put him in the hospital for seventeen days; he was discharged on Christmas Eve and spent the next six months in a wheelchair before the casts were removed and he began receiving physical therapy to return his mobility.

[5] Communities bordering Valley Stream are Elmont (home of Belmont Park racetrack), Lynbrook, Malverne, Franklin Square, Hewlett, Woodmere, and Rosedale (a neighborhood in Queens in New York City).