Towing in Downtown Brooklyn
Downtown is bridges and garages. Two East River crossings land here, the BQE cuts through, and most of the cars live underground beneath towers. Almost nothing we do in Downtown Brooklyn is a car sitting on an ordinary block: it is a ramp, a span, or a garage, and each of those decides the truck before we leave.
- Since 1977 · 49 years in Brooklyn
- Towing 24 hours / 7 days · our own trucks
- Coney Island Ave:Checking hours…
- All major insurance accepted
- Spoken here: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian
How fast we reach 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. Fastest response of any borough. We are based here, so most Brooklyn calls are short runs back to our own shop.
What makes Downtown Brooklyn different.
Not generic advice. These are the things that actually change which truck we send and how we get your car out.
Two bridge approaches
Adams Street feeds the Brooklyn Bridge and the Flatbush Avenue Extension feeds the Manhattan Bridge, and neither the ramps nor the spans have a shoulder. A car that stops on either is blocking a lane into Manhattan. Tell us which bridge, which direction, and whether you are on the approach or the span itself; we come from the Brooklyn end and shield the lane before hookup.
Underground garages
The residential and office towers park underground, with clearances a flatbed does not fit and ramp angles a low car cannot be dragged up. We bring the wheel-lift into the garage, bring the car up to the street, and put it on a deck there if it needs one. Give us the building and the level when you call.
Fulton Street, the bus lanes and game nights
Fulton between Flatbush and Adams is a pedestrian and bus street; Jay Street runs bus lanes; and on an event night at Barclays the Flatbush-Atlantic junction does not move. We will not stage a truck where it cannot legally stop, so a breakdown on one of those blocks meets us at the nearest cross street: we tell you which one when we know where you are.
Roads and landmarks in Downtown Brooklyn.
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
- Flatbush Avenue and the Flatbush Avenue Extension
- Atlantic Avenue
- Tillary Street
- Adams Street
- Jay Street
- Court Street
- The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (I-278)
Landmarks
- Barclays Center
- Atlantic Terminal
- Borough Hall
- MetroTech Center
- The Fulton Mall
Zip codes covered
- 11201
- 11217
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 Downtown Brooklyn 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.
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.
Need a tow in Downtown Brooklyn?
Give us the cross streets or a landmark and what the car is doing. Towing answers 24 hours / 7 days.