Brooklyn Auto Transport & Car Shipping

Neptune Auto Transport is headquartered in Brooklyn, at 64 Quentin Rd, and Brooklyn auto transport is the work we know best. We arrange door-to-door car shipping to and from Brooklyn every day, open and enclosed carriers, carrier insurance, one all-inclusive price and a specialist who handles your move from the first call to the moment the keys are back in your hand.

Auto transport in Brooklyn: what to expect

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, and shipping a car in and out of it is a genuinely different job from shipping one in the suburbs. The borough is a patchwork of brownstone blocks, one-way streets, alternate-side parking rules and neighborhoods that were laid out long before an 80-foot auto carrier existed. None of that is a problem. It just means the pickup is planned rather than improvised.

The other half of the picture is how carriers actually get here. Brooklyn's parkways, the Belt Parkway, Ocean Parkway and the Prospect Expressway approaches, are closed to commercial vehicles or too low for them, so a car carrier reaches the borough on the Gowanus and Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (I-278), over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge from Staten Island, or across the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges. Knowing which of those a driver can legally use is most of what makes a Brooklyn pickup run on time.

Neighborhoods we serve across Brooklyn

We pick up and deliver across the whole borough, not just the easy blocks:

• South Brooklyn: Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, Coney Island and Marine Park, the heart of our seasonal Florida traffic.
• Central Brooklyn: Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Midwood, Borough Park and Kensington.
• North Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
• Waterfront & downtown: Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn, Red Hook, Gowanus and Sunset Park.
• East Brooklyn: Canarsie, Mill Basin, Bergen Beach, East New York and Brownsville.

If your street is wide enough and legal to stop on, the carrier comes to you. If it isn't, we sort out a meeting point a few blocks away before the driver ever leaves the yard.

Brooklyn pickup & delivery considerations

A loaded car carrier is roughly 75 to 80 feet long and needs room to stop, load and pull away without blocking a bus route or a fire hydrant. On a narrow residential block in Park Slope, Bay Ridge or Greenpoint, that usually isn't possible, so the driver proposes a nearby spot that works: a wide avenue like Fourth Avenue or Ocean Parkway's service road, a large retail lot along Avenue U or in Gowanus, or a stretch near a BQE on-ramp. It takes a few extra minutes of coordination, it costs nothing extra, and it is completely routine here.

Two more Brooklyn specifics worth planning around. Alternate-side parking means the curb space in front of your building can be legally unavailable at exactly the wrong hour, so we schedule around your street's cleaning days when it matters. And low-clearance parkway overpasses mean a carrier cannot simply take the Belt Parkway across the borough, the routing is fixed by what commercial vehicles are allowed to drive, which occasionally shifts a pickup window by an hour or two in heavy traffic.

Popular Brooklyn car shipping routes

Brooklyn generates some of the busiest vehicle lanes in the Northeast. The moves we handle most often are:

• Brooklyn → Florida, by far the heaviest lane, especially from Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and Bay Ridge each fall. See New York to Florida, and Florida to New York for the spring return.
• Brooklyn → California, coast-to-coast relocations and vehicle sales; see New York to California and the inbound California to New York lane.
• Brooklyn → the Carolinas, steady out-of-state moves down I-95; see New York to North Carolina.
• Brooklyn → Texas and Illinois, job relocations to Houston, Dallas and Chicago; see New York to Texas and New York to Illinois.
• Brooklyn → Arizona, a growing winter lane toward Phoenix and Tucson; see New York to Arizona.

Shipping within the metro area is common too, cars coming in from Newark, Jersey City and across Long Island. For every lane we run statewide, see our New York auto transport page.

Vehicles & transport options for Brooklyn

We move far more than sedans through Brooklyn: SUVs, pickups, cargo vans, motorcycles, and classic, luxury and exotic vehicles. Two options cover most moves:

• Open transport, the most popular and affordable choice, on the same multi-level carriers that deliver new cars to dealerships. Best availability and the shortest pickup windows in the city.
• Enclosed transport, a fully covered trailer that shields the vehicle from weather, winter road salt and debris. It's the usual pick for luxury and exotic cars and classic and collector vehicles, and it matters more here than most people expect: Brooklyn streets get salted hard from December through March.

Every move is door-to-door. When the timing is tight, a closing date, a lease return, a flight, expedited transport puts your vehicle with the first available carrier. Motorcycle shipping uses soft-strapping and, on enclosed moves, full crating.

How much does it cost to ship a car to or from Brooklyn?

There is no flat rate. What your Brooklyn move costs comes down to:

• Distance and lane demand, Brooklyn sits on high-volume corridors, so lanes like Brooklyn–Florida price better per mile than a thin rural route.
• Vehicle size, weight and condition, a three-row SUV takes more deck space than a sedan, and a non-running car needs a winch.
• Open vs. enclosed, enclosed adds a significant premium for the extra protection.
• Season, the southbound snowbird peak each fall and the northbound return each spring are the two busiest windows of the Brooklyn year.
• Access and date flexibility, a workable meeting point and a few days of flexibility are the two easiest ways to keep the price down.

We don't publish invented averages or claim to be the cheapest. You get one clear, all-inclusive number for your exact vehicle and route. Our guide to what car shipping costs explains the mechanics in more detail.

How long does it take to ship a car to or from Brooklyn?

Two separate clocks. The pickup window, how long until a carrier collects the vehicle, is usually 2–5 business days on standard service, or 24–72 hours with expedited. Then transit: regional Northeast moves to Boston, Philadelphia or Washington typically run 1–2 days; Brooklyn to Florida is generally 3–5 days; Chicago 2–4; Texas 5–7; and the West Coast about 7–10. City traffic can add a few hours on either end, and winter weather occasionally moves a date. We don't guarantee exact delivery times, but your specialist tells you what's happening as it happens.

Common reasons customers ship cars in Brooklyn

Brooklyn shipments cluster into a few familiar situations: snowbirds sending a car to Florida or Arizona for the winter and bringing it back in spring; relocations in and out of the city for work; out-of-state vehicle purchases, where the car is bought online or at auction and needs to get home; students at Brooklyn College, Pratt, NYU Tandon and LIU Brooklyn moving a car for the school year with college student car shipping; military PCS moves; and dealers and auction buyers moving inventory. The process is identical in every case, transparent, insured, and run by a person you can call.