Dyker Heights Brooklyn – Christmas Lights
Our good friend Dan took us on a car tour of the Christmas decorgasm in Dyker Heights Brooklyn. The few out of control (and wonderful) houses we ran across were on 84th street between 12th and 13th ave. These houses have huge, amusement park size decorations, millions of lights and swaying/singing reindeer. Not to mention the maniacal Santa.
Guess who lives at this house…
That’s right – welcome to Santa’s domain!
This tree is completely wrapped in lights, but only a few branches were illuminated. Wonder if there is one loose bulb someplace?
Custom lettering on Santa’s van, parked around the block from the decoration insanity.
Do you know of a great xmas lights location? Comment in the address here and we will add it to our ever growing map.
Here are some more pictures we found on Flickr. (for good measure)
December 24th, 2005 at 5:40 am
[...] i made home made eggnog today. better with rum, than with brandy. i also watched an interesting special on channel Thirteen about the Dyker Lights. It’s some crazy place in brooklyn or something with all these dudes who have horrible ny accents rabidly decorating their houses. the scariest thing of all was a santa. was robotic and you could talk to it through a speaker. it would then answer you. the creepy thing was that it was answered by a guy who had set it up so that there was a video feed and a microphone in his house. he was dirty and balding, and very, very unkempt. the thing itslef wasn’t pleasent to look at: Comments » [...]
December 24th, 2005 at 5:41 am
i watched a channel thirteen special on this place. amazing. the mechanical santa = creepy. i linked to you because this is the best article about the place that i have found. merry christmas.
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:55 am
Those decorations are so impressive. I have never seen anything like them.
I used to live near this street in New Zealand where every house would have christmas lights, but your photos take Christmas decoration to a whole new level!
December 20th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
I like your lights a lot. My faviorte part is the Santa Clause. I think you people should keep on doing this every year.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
the house with the HUGE santa is my grandma’s Florence polizzotto and dont worry we do do it every year you should come by and see for yourself!
December 26th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
awesome, i will be there to see next year
December 30th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Are these decorations still going through the weekend after New Year’s? Jan 1-3? We’re planning to be there and would love to show our kids the lights if they are still up. Please email me if you know. Thanks.