Towing in Marine Park
Marine Park is the one neighbourhood on this list we cross constantly for reasons other than a call: Flatbush Avenue through Marine Park is the route between the Coney Island Avenue shop and the sales lot at Rockaway Point. There is usually a truck somewhere on that road already.
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How fast we reach Marine Park.
Fifteen minutes from the shop, and on our road to Rockaway. Fastest response of any borough. We are based here, so most Brooklyn calls are short runs back to our own shop.
What makes Marine Park different.
Not generic advice. These are the things that actually change which truck we send and how we get your car out.
Gerritsen Avenue floods at the marsh end
The southern stretch of Gerritsen, where it runs alongside the salt marsh, takes standing water on a high tide with any wind behind it. Cars stall there several times a winter. If the water reached the sills, say so: it changes whether the car should be started again at all.
Flatbush Avenue is a truck route and it is ours
We run Flatbush between the shop and the Rockaway Point lot regularly, which often means the nearest truck to a Marine Park breakdown is already moving in your direction rather than starting from Kensington.
The bridge approach has no shoulder worth the name
The run-up to the Marine Parkway Bridge narrows and the shoulder disappears near the toll plaza. A breakdown there needs to be cleared quickly and we will usually come with the flatbed rather than the wheel-lift so it is one lift and gone.
Park-side streets fill on weekends
The streets facing the park off Fillmore and Avenue U are parked solid whenever the fields are in use. Extracting from the middle of a row there is wheel-lift work.
Roads and landmarks in Marine Park.
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
- Gerritsen Avenue
- Avenue U
- Fillmore Avenue
- Quentin Road
- Burnett Street
- Marine Parkway Bridge
Landmarks
- Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center
- The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
- Marine Park Golf Course
- Gerritsen Avenue at Avenue U
Zip codes covered
- 11229
- 11234
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 Marine Park 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.
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.
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 Marine Park?
Give us the cross streets or a landmark and what the car is doing. Towing answers 24 hours / 7 days.