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Dyker Heights, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Dyker Heights is a residential neighborhood on a Brooklyn hill, ringed by Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Gravesend Bay.
About Dyker Heights
Where to stay in Dyker Heights
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Rooms are scarce inside the boundaries. Dyker Heights is predominantly residential, which pushes most stays into Bay Ridge across 7th Avenue or into Bensonhurst and Borough Park beyond 14th Avenue, all within a short run of Dyker Beach Golf Course. The Belt Parkway carries the traffic south.
Anyone driving in finds Gravesend Bay on that side and 65th Street marking the way back toward the rest of Brooklyn.
About Dyker Heights
What are the main landmarks in Dyker Heights?
Three named sites stand out. Dyker Beach Golf Course spreads open ground through a grid that is otherwise residential, reaching toward the Belt Parkway that closes the neighborhood on the side facing Gravesend Bay. Churches supply the other two.
St. George Coptic Orthodox Church and Bay Ridge United Church both stand inside the limits that 7th Avenue and 14th Avenue draw to west and east.
What is the history of Dyker Heights?
Dyker Heights dates to 1895. It has stayed predominantly residential in the long stretch since, a hillside quarter of Brooklyn hemmed in by 65th Street at the north and by the Belt Parkway where the ground falls toward Gravesend Bay. Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Borough Park surround it on the landward sides.
The avenues fix the rest: 7th Avenue west, 14th Avenue east. Dyker Beach Golf Course and the two churches, Bay Ridge United Church and St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, are the named sites within those limits.
Where is Dyker Heights?
The neighborhood covers a hill between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Gravesend Bay, with 65th Street to the north and the Belt Parkway to the south.
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Updated August 2026