Towing in Bensonhurst
Bensonhurst is one of the neighborhoods we reach fastest, and one where the truck we send matters most. The elevated D line runs the length of New Utrecht Avenue and then 86th Street, and half the neighborhood's shopping happens underneath it. A breakdown on 86th is a wheel-lift call before anyone has said another word.
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How fast we reach Bensonhurst.
About fifteen minutes: down McDonald Avenue or Ocean Parkway, then across on Bay Parkway. Fastest response of any borough. We are based here, so most Brooklyn calls are short runs back to our own shop.
What makes Bensonhurst different.
Not generic advice. These are the things that actually change which truck we send and how we get your car out.
The el over 86th Street and New Utrecht Avenue
The West End line sits directly above the roadway on steel columns for most of its route through the neighborhood. There is no room to raise a flatbed deck beneath it, the lanes either side of the columns are narrow, and the shops keep the curb full. We come in with a wheel-lift, hook from the street side, and take the car to the first open cross street before it goes anywhere else.
Bay Parkway at the Belt, and the shopping lots
The big-box lots along Shore Parkway at Bay Parkway produce a steady run of no-starts and lockouts, and the Belt exit right beside them is a short merge with almost no shoulder. If you are in a lot, give us the store; if you are on the Belt, give us the direction and the exit: those are two different approaches to the same corner.
18th Avenue on a weekend
The commercial strip is double-parked with deliveries from mid-morning and slows to a crawl on Sundays. A car that dies in the traffic lane there has to be moved before it can be loaded properly; we push or drag it to a hydrant and load from there rather than closing the avenue.
Roads and landmarks in Bensonhurst.
Any of these is enough to locate you. If you're on a parkway, the nearest exit number is faster than a street name.
Roads
- 86th Street
- Bay Parkway
- 18th Avenue
- New Utrecht Avenue
- Cropsey Avenue
- Stillwell Avenue
- The Belt Parkway (Bay Parkway exit)
Landmarks
- Caesar's Bay shopping center
- The 18th Avenue strip
- Bensonhurst Park
- The New Utrecht Reformed Church
- The Bay Parkway D station
Zip codes covered
- 11214
- 11204
And it can go straight into our own bay.
Most tows end at a yard where a stranger looks at your car whenever they get to it. Our shop is at 619 Coney Island Avenue, so a Bensonhurst pickup can be diagnosed and repaired by the same company that towed it: one invoice, no second tow, and nobody blaming the last operator.
Other Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Kensington
Our own block: the shop is on Coney Island Avenue in Kensington.
Midwood
About ten minutes south on Coney Island Avenue.
Borough Park
Roughly ten minutes west of the shop.
Sheepshead Bay
About fifteen minutes south, straight down Coney Island Avenue.
Park Slope
Fifteen minutes north, up Prospect Park West or the Prospect Expressway.
Flatbush
Ten minutes east of the shop.
Mill Basin
About fifteen minutes east of the shop, off Flatbush Avenue.
Bergen Beach
Fifteen to twenty minutes from the shop, past Mill Basin.
Marine Park
Fifteen minutes from the shop, and on our road to Rockaway.
Ditmas Park
Minutes away: it starts where Kensington ends, on Coney Island Avenue.
Coney Island
Straight down Ocean Parkway to its southern end, about twenty minutes.
East Flatbush
About fifteen minutes east along Church Avenue or Linden Boulevard.
Flatlands
About twenty minutes southeast, out along Kings Highway or Flatlands Avenue.
Bay Ridge
About twenty minutes south-west, down Fort Hamilton Parkway or along the Belt.
Brighton Beach
Straight down Coney Island Avenue to its end, about twenty minutes.
Gravesend
Ten to fifteen minutes straight down McDonald Avenue.
Canarsie
About twenty minutes east along Flatlands Avenue, or by the Belt.
Williamsburg
Thirty minutes or more on a normal day: it is across the borough from us, and we say so before the truck rolls.
Downtown Brooklyn
About twenty-five minutes up Ocean Parkway and Flatbush Avenue on a normal day; longer at rush hour, and we tell you which.
Need a tow in Bensonhurst?
Give us the cross streets or a landmark and what the car is doing. Towing answers 24 hours / 7 days.