Dyker Heights

Nestled between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Borough Park, is Dyker Heights. This neighborhood sits from 86^th Street and 7^th Avenue to 65^th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, and 65^th Street and 15^th Avenue and 86^th Street and 15^thAvenue. Dyker Heights has been an Italian enclave since the earlier 1900’s. This is the neighborhood that is known for their Christmas lights each year when generous families from the neighborhood go above and beyond with the most spectacular private Christmas light shows on their own doorsteps anywhere in the country. Dyker Heights is known for its being the home of La Bella Marketplace, one of the largest purveyors of fine Italian products in the United States. Dyker Heights is also home to many other businesses and shops along 13^th Avenue such as Tasty Pastry Pasticceria. Saint Bernadette is the Italian National Parish on one side of  Dyker Heights but on the other side is the Basilica of Regina Pacis, which is the second largest Italian National Parish in the country next to Saint Lucy’s in Newark.