Dyker Heights

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

East of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights covers the blocks between 7th and 14th Avenues from 65th Street south to the Belt Parkway.

  • 1.04 square miles
  • 46,756 residents, 2020 Census
  • 169 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 7 bus routes

It grew into a residential neighborhood in the early 20th century and took its name from the Dyker meadow and beach below it, a name that may come from the dikes Dutch settlers used to drain the marshland. Its homes include detached and semidetached one- and two-family houses, many with driveways and yards, and its Christmas light displays date from sometime in the 1980s.

Sources: Dyker Heights, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Dyker Beach Park History (NYC Parks); Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (Wikipedia).

Map

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Dyker Heights borders six areas, and 10th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 26 of 169.

Street map of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, outlined among Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Sunset Park (Central), with its one subway station and McKinley Park.Sunset Park (Central)Borough ParkBensonhurstBath BeachDyker Beach ParkBay Ridge
  • Dyker Heights
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Fort Hamilton Pkwy lines N

Getting around

One subway station and buses on seven routes stop in or at the edge of Dyker Heights.

  • 1 subway station
  • 5 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B1
  • B4
  • B16
  • B64
  • B70

Express bus routes

  • X28
  • X38

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,371 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 8.1 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 9 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 69 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
57
Accessible pedestrian signals
16
Turn calming
8
Enhanced crossings
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 24,310 school-zone speed camera tickets at 13 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
65th Street & 13th Avenue, 6,576

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 46,756 residents in Dyker Heights, about 45,000 per square mile.

  • 16,230 homes, 2020 Census
  • 291 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 6,522 residential lots hold buildings from 1925 or earlier, and 86% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
17.9 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
McKinley Park (8.2 acres), Leif Ericson Park (6.7 acres) and Quaker Parrot Park at the Dust Bowl (1.7 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,796 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Callery pear and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
10th Avenue, with 26 of the area's 169
Height above sea level
From 19 feet at 14th Avenue & 84th Street to 104 feet at 82nd Street & 11th Avenue
Honorary street names
28 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 13 schools and two libraries in Dyker Heights.

Public schools
8
Charter and private schools
5
Libraries
Dyker Library and McKinley Park Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 217 major felonies at places in Dyker Heights.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Dyker Heights

  • 268 major felonies in 2024
  • 877 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Dyker Heights, the NYPD recorded another 28 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 5.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Dyker Heights.

Map of Dyker Heights: 10 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Dyker Heights, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Dyker Heights, most about 1,250 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Dyker Heights are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Dyker Heights and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
68th (most of the area), 62nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Dyker Heights, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 112 major felonies at places in Dyker Heights, against 109 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.