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24 hour towing in the Jersey City Heights, NJ: hills, one-way blocks and the slope down to Tonnelle

Central Avenue, Palisade Avenue, Summit Avenue, Franklin Street, Congress Street, Riverview-Fisk Park, Pershing Field and the Western Slope down to Paterson Plank Road and Tonnelle Avenue, with Christ Hospital in the middle and Union City at the top. A tow truck near you at any hour, on streets that were laid out before trucks were this wide.

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Tight curb cuts, family crossovers and the first ice of winter: towing in the Heights

Heights calls are residential: a crossover that will not start in a driveway with a narrow curb cut, a car boxed in on a one-way block off Central Avenue, a slide-off on the slope below Riverview after a freeze, all at the same $149 flat booking fee, $129 when you book online.

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Central Avenue and the shopping blocks

The commercial spine of the Heights, with curbside parking, bus stops and shops open late. Flat tires, dead batteries at the meters, and cars that quit in traffic at Central and Bowers. Give the nearest cross street and which side of the avenue the car is on.

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Palisade Avenue, Riverview-Fisk Park and Christ Hospital

The blocks along the cliff above Hoboken, the park overlook, and the hospital lots on Palisade at the end of a night shift. Most hospital-lot calls are dead batteries and are cleared with a jump. Security admits the truck once you have called; tell dispatch which lot or which deck level.

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The Western Slope and Paterson Plank Road

The streets that drop from Summit Avenue toward Tonnelle Avenue ice before anything on top of the hill does. A slide into a curb or a fence starts as a winch job: the car comes back onto the pavement, and if it runs you keep going. Bent metal means the flatbed, which is already parked behind you.

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Tonnelle Avenue and the North Bergen line

Routes 1 & 9 through the Heights is all trucks, jughandles and motel lots. Direct dispatch in both directions; say the last jughandle you passed or the nearest cross street, and get the car to the right if it still rolls.

Crossover dead in a Heights driveway? A jump costs less than a tow, and we try it first.

Call (908) 666-3168All of Jersey City
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Next to the Heights: Journal Square, Union City, Hoboken

The same dispatch covers Journal Square down Summit Avenue, Union City up Palisade, and Hoboken down the Fourteenth Street viaduct or Paterson Plank Road.

One number for every hill and driveway in the Heights, at every hour.

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FAQ

The Heights: common questions

Short answers to what people ask about this page; the dispatcher can answer the rest.

Can the truck fit down a narrow one-way block in the Heights?

Usually with a wheel-lift, and we send that truck when a flatbed will not fit. The driver calls ahead so you can move a second car, and winches from the corner if the curb cut is too tight.

Do you tow all-wheel-drive crossovers from the Heights?

Yes, always on a flatbed, so no wheel turns on the road. Say what you drive when you call and the correct truck is the one that shows up.

My car slid down the Western Slope into a curb. Is that a tow?

Not at first. The winch brings it back to the pavement, and a car that still runs is finished there. Damage turns it into a tow, priced on the spot, with no extra callout.

How long to reach the Heights at night?

It is the top of the city and the far end from Linden, so from the yard it is close to the full 28 minutes. A truck already on Tonnelle Avenue or Route 139 is much nearer, and the dispatcher quotes from there.

Anything else? Ask on the call.

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