Towing in Mill Basin
Mill Basin is built on filled-in creek land, and the street plan still follows the water. Half the neighbourhood is peninsulas hanging off Mill Avenue and National Drive, most of them dead ends, and that geography decides how a recovery here has to be done long before anyone opens a toolbox.
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How fast we reach Mill Basin.
About fifteen minutes east of the shop, off Flatbush Avenue. Fastest response of any borough. We are based here, so most Brooklyn calls are short runs back to our own shop.
What makes Mill Basin different.
Not generic advice. These are the things that actually change which truck we send and how we get your car out.
The peninsulas are dead ends
National Drive, Whitman Drive and the streets running off them finish at the water. There is no loop and no through route, so a flatbed that drives in has to reverse most of the way out. On the tighter ones we bring the wheel-lift instead and take the car out nose-first.
Kings Plaza's garage will not take a truck
The mall garage off Flatbush has posted clearances well under what a loaded flatbed needs. If your car has died inside it, we recover on a wheel-lift from the deck and transfer at street level on Avenue U. Worth saying on the phone so we send the right truck first time.
The Belt Parkway bridge backs up both ways
Everything reaching Mill Basin from the shop crosses the Mill Basin bridge or comes down Flatbush. When the bridge is up or the Belt is stopped, Flatbush to Avenue U is the faster approach, and knowing which side of the water you are on changes our route by ten minutes.
Driveways here are private and often gated
Unlike most of Brooklyn, a lot of Mill Basin homes have real driveways and off-street parking. If the car is behind a gate, tell us: we can usually winch onto the deck from the street rather than needing to get the truck onto the property at all.
Roads and landmarks in Mill Basin.
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
- Mill Avenue
- National Drive
- Strickland Avenue
- Basset Avenue
- East 66th Street
- Flatbush Avenue
- Belt Parkway
Landmarks
- Kings Plaza
- The Mill Basin bridge on the Belt Parkway
- Lois Avenue's waterfront
- The Mill Basin Yacht Club
Zip codes covered
- 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 Mill Basin 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.
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.
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 Mill Basin?
Give us the cross streets or a landmark and what the car is doing. Towing answers 24 hours / 7 days.