Visitor guide
How to See the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights
Free to look at, about an hour on foot, and no subway station within a mile of it. The whole evening, from which train to which block, in one page.
The Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Blog
Short answers to the questions that come up once the evening is decided. Which blocks to walk. What it costs. Whether it works with a four-year-old, and how the whole thing started with one house in 1986.
The route
The Dyker Heights Christmas Lights, Street by Street
There is no entrance and no centre. Which four blocks carry most of it, which houses people come for, and the order to walk them in.
Background
Twelve Things People Get Wrong About the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights
It started in 1986 with one house. There is a building on the National Register in the middle of it. And the displays are put up by professionals.
With children
Taking Children to the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights
An hour outdoors after dark, on a hill, in a crowd, with nowhere to sit. What works at four, what works at ten, and which departure to pick.
What you pay
What the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Actually Cost
Nothing to look at, $45 to $999 to be taken there. The fares, the fares they are compared against, and the arithmetic for one evening.
Every post below points at real departures. See them all on Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Tours.