Towing in Gravesend
Gravesend is on our own avenue's twin. McDonald Avenue runs from the shop's block all the way south through the neighborhood under the F line, so the route is a straight line and the conditions are ones we work every day. Most of what we do here is on Avenue U and Kings Highway, and on the Belt where it curves past Coney Island Creek.
- Since 1977 · 49 years in Brooklyn
- Towing 24 hours / 7 days · our own trucks
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- All major insurance accepted
- Spoken here: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian
How fast we reach Gravesend.
Ten to fifteen minutes straight down McDonald Avenue. Fastest response of any borough. We are based here, so most Brooklyn calls are short runs back to our own shop.
What makes Gravesend different.
Not generic advice. These are the things that actually change which truck we send and how we get your car out.
McDonald Avenue under the F
The Culver line is elevated above McDonald from Ditmas Avenue south through Gravesend, the same steel columns that run past our own block. A flatbed cannot lift its deck beneath the structure, so a car stopped on McDonald comes out on the wheel-lift, or we walk it round the corner first. We do this on our own street; it is routine here.
Avenue U and the Kings Highway strip
Both are dense retail with bus routes and the curb permanently taken. A car that dies in the lane has to be moved before a proper hookup, and we do not tie up the avenue to do it: we get it to a hydrant or a side street and load there. Tell us the nearest cross street and whether it still rolls.
The Belt between Bay Parkway and Ocean Parkway
The Cropsey and Shell Road exits are short, the shoulder comes and goes, and the low stretch by Coney Island Creek floods in a heavy rain. On the Belt, the exit number and your direction locate you faster than anything else; from behind the barrier is where we want you when you call.
Roads and landmarks in Gravesend.
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
- McDonald Avenue
- Avenue U
- Kings Highway
- 86th Street
- Stillwell Avenue
- Shell Road
- The Belt Parkway (Cropsey and Shell Road exits)
Landmarks
- Lady Moody Square
- The Old Gravesend Cemetery
- The Kings Highway F station
- The Avenue U strip
- The Marlboro Houses
Zip codes covered
- 11223
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 Gravesend 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.
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 Gravesend?
Give us the cross streets or a landmark and what the car is doing. Towing answers 24 hours / 7 days.