Towing in Coney Island
Coney Island is the far end of our own avenue's corridor: Ocean Parkway runs from near the shop to the boardwalk. It is also the most seasonal place we tow. The same streets that are empty in February are gridlocked on a hot Saturday, and the honest answer about response time here changes with the calendar.
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How fast we reach Coney Island.
Straight down Ocean Parkway to its southern end, about twenty minutes. Fastest response of any borough. We are based here, so most Brooklyn calls are short runs back to our own shop.
What makes Coney Island different.
Not generic advice. These are the things that actually change which truck we send and how we get your car out.
Summer weekends around the amusement district
On beach days, Surf Avenue between Stillwell and West 15th barely moves, and side streets fill with circling parkers. We stage off Neptune Avenue and come south rather than fighting Surf end to end. If you are stuck inside that box on a summer weekend, we will still get to you, but we will tell you a real number, not a wish.
The Belt Parkway and the water
The Belt's low-lying stretch by Coney Island Creek floods in heavy rain, and its shoulders are narrow where they exist at all. A breakdown on the Belt here is a get-behind-the-barrier situation: call from outside the car, tell us your direction and the nearest exit number, and we position the flatbed to shield the lane before hookup.
Sea Gate is behind a real gate
The western tip of the peninsula is a private community with controlled entry. The gate will not wave a tow truck through on our say-so: a resident has to authorize access. If your car is inside Sea Gate, start that call while we are on the way, or meet us at the Surf Avenue gate; it saves half an hour.
Roads and landmarks in Coney Island.
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
- Surf Avenue
- Neptune Avenue
- Mermaid Avenue
- Stillwell Avenue
- Cropsey Avenue
- The Belt Parkway (Shore Parkway)
Landmarks
- Luna Park and the Wonder Wheel
- The Stillwell Avenue terminal
- Maimonides Park
- The Riegelmann Boardwalk
- The New York Aquarium
Zip codes covered
- 11224
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 Coney Island 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.
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.
Bensonhurst
About fifteen minutes: down McDonald Avenue or Ocean Parkway, then across on Bay Parkway.
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 Coney Island?
Give us the cross streets or a landmark and what the car is doing. Towing answers 24 hours / 7 days.