Dyker Heights Christmas Lights (Dyker Lights)
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: 11th to 13th Avenues between 83rd and 86th Streets, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York
When: Weekend after Thanksgiving through the first week of January
Hours: Dusk to about 9pm
Cost: free
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NYC's most famous residential display, where homeowners and hired decorating companies fill multiple blocks with installations elaborate enough to have been featured in a PBS documentary. The brightest stretch runs from 83rd to 86th Streets, and a full walk takes roughly 60 to 90 minutes; the D train to 79th Street gets you within walking distance.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Brooklyn is around 4:29 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:00 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 32°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 6 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 31 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Brooklyn's Home for the Holidays
- Dumbo Archway Plaza Holiday Lights
- Lightscape at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Grand Army Plaza Menorah
- 79th Street Holiday House
- The Seaport Holiday Lights
- Zuccotti Park Holiday Lights
- Avenue of the Americas Holiday Decorations
Make a night of it. This is stop 5 on our 6-stop Brooklyn lights loop — about 9.4 miles and 47 minutes of driving in total.