Dyker Heights is a prosperous residential neighborhood in the southwest corner of the Brooklyn district of New York City, USA. It is on a hill between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and Gravesend Bay. This neighborhood is officially limited by 7th and 14th Avenues, 65th Street, and Belt Parkway to the west, east, north and south, respectively.
Dyker Heights has a suburban character with a separate one-and two-family house and tree-lined streets, and can be divided into three sections. The southernmost section, south of 86th Street and east of 7th Avenue, contains Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course. The middle section between Bay Ridge Parkway and 86th Street, and between 14th Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway, is more exclusive in its character. The northern border of the environment is more integrated with the surrounding area. The Dyker Heights Civic Association, founded in 1928, is a civilian group representing the interests of the community. This area is overall known for its Christmas light display, which is often complicated.
Dyker Heights originated as the construction of speculative luxury housing in October 1895 when Walter Loveridge Johnson developed part of the forest into a suburban community. It retained its status as a rich environment through the 20th century. During the peak of its development, the boundaries were mainly between Tenth Avenue and Thirteenth Avenue and from 79th Street to 86th Street. The best houses of the building are located along a 110-foot (34 m) hill, around Eleventh Avenue and 82nd Street.
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History
Initial development
The Dyker Heights neighborhood lies within the borders of the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1657. The area now known as Dyker Heights was not developed in the 17th or 18th centuries because the land was too slanted for agriculture; it remained an ordinary forest until the mid-19th century. The trees in this forest are used by the townspeople as a source of firewood and construction materials. When the agricultural industry in New Utrecht changed from agricultural grains to planting market produce, the trees were cleaned for tomatoes, cabbage, and potatoes, among other results.
The first house built on a hill (which is now 11th Avenue and 82nd Street, about 110 feet (34 m) above sea level) was built in the late 1820s by Brigadier General Renà ©  © Edward De Russy of the US Army. De Russy is a military engineer who built many fortresses in the US - from the Canadian-US border and the east coast to the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific coast - including Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. Since this is the highest natural point in southwest Brooklyn, he built the homestead here - it provides a clear view of the harbor and its defense, especially Fort Hamilton which was completed in November 1831. De Russy died in 1865 and his wife, Helen, sold the property on in 1888 to Jane Elisabeth Loveridge and Frederick Henry Johnson.
Development by Johnsons
According to Brooklyn Eagle, Frederick Johnson did "much to develop the territory in which he lived, he is the author of New Utrecht Improvement Bill new, and a persistent advocate of City annexation for this city." The city of New Utrecht was annexed to Brooklyn City on July 1, 1894. On January 1, 1898, Brooklyn City was annexed to the City of New York. Engaged in real estate, Johnson may be aware of real estate pressures and real estate potential in New Utrecht. With this in mind, he is most likely to buy De Russy's estate for the purpose of building an upscale residential neighborhood similar to Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea, built by James D. Lynch in 1880-1890 at Bath Beach in New Utrecht.. At that time, Real Estate Records claimed Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea was "the most perfect suburb ever built around New York." The restrictions placed on the property make Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea "a model settlement, where some of the most refined, intelligent and cultured residents of New York City and Brooklyn have built their homes."
After Johnson's death on August 15, 1893 at the age of 52, his second son, Walter Loveridge Johnson, took over the real estate business and in October of 1895 began Dyker Heights on his parent's property. Johnson named his development "Dyker Heights" after Dyker Meadow and Beach, whose development is facing. The meadows and beaches receive their name from Van Dykes (the original family of New Utrecht) who built the dikes to dry grasslands, or for the embankment built by Van Dykes. Walter L. Johnson was able to develop this new forest section of Utrecht into a residential community by making necessary improvements to it. In 1890, the only roads were Kings Highway, 86th Street, Denyse's Lane, and an unnamed little street near Tenth Avenue - none of which were paved and only 86th Street was a specially designed highway like that. The remaining land is not planted. Johnson continues the Brooklyn road network to the south with macadam sidewalks, assessing properties, installing gas, water, telephones, and power lines, and planting a sugar maple tree - seven on the road and twenty along the road. It opened more than two hundred building sites between the Tenth and Road 13 as well as between 79 and 86 Roads.
In 1895, Johnson, very conscious of the success of Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea, built three houses. His house is on the southwest corner of 11th Avenue and 82nd Street (across the Avenue from his mother's house), Albert Edward Parfitt's house is on 82nd Street next to Johnson's, and the last one, closest to Tenth Avenue, is the home of Arthur S. Tuttle is an Engineer Assistant from The Water Supply of The City Works Department of The City of Brooklyn. Parfitt is the architect of these three houses. The Johnson House was burned before 1900, Parfitt was destroyed by developers in 1928 and replaced with seven, run-of-the-mill, detached houses, single family homes, and Tuttle's house renovated over 10 years ago and clad in bricks white and sky blue.
Throughout its development, Walter L. Johnson could use the printing press to his advantage. He advertises his suburban homes heavily and declares that the high sea views, magnificent ocean views, and careful restrictions make Dyker Heights the largest suburb of New York. Based on the newspaper account, he's right. In 1896 Johnson built and sold thirty houses in Dyker Heights. In January 1897, Brooklyn Eagle reported on his achievements. "Mr. Johnson has met with great success in the development of Dyker Heights and may have done more business and generated more sales over the past year than all the rest of the surrounding settlements combined." In April 1898 sales were still very strong. "Dyker Heights still leads among the suburbs in a building operation, more than forty houses have been established there over the past year... and there are twenty more homes to be built." One of the advantages is its location, which, according to Brooklyn Eagle, is one of the best in Greater New York, which provides a broad view of the water from Sandy Hook to New Jersey Palisades, with Staten Island and the coast of New Jersey directly in front. "Still more praise in February 1899," Dyker Heights has become one of the most successful and fastest growing suburban neighborhoods, over a hundred shelters, costing from $ 5,000 to $ 25,000 each, which has been established there in the last two years. "
Benefits of development
In September 1899, The Wall Street Journal even reported the advantages of development, recommending it to "busy Wall Street men" for "exceptional transportation facilities... accessible via the Brooklyn Street Three-Ninth Ferry and Eighty-Sixth Street Nassau Line within 45 minutes. "Additionally, the article states that" a 45-minute ride between Dyker Heights and Wall Street with water and trains is refreshing as Dyker Heights's healthy living climate is a rare opportunity given by Dyker Heights to the rich and the people in moderate circumstances largely due to the energy, company, and tastes of its founder, Mr. Walter L. Johnson. "A month later, the Wall Street Journal published" The Ideal Place for Home. " From that article, one can clearly see why Dyker Heights is so successful. Its location and luxury home are first-rate, "[Dyker Heights] without a location rival, located at an altitude of 110 feet above sea level, and directly opposite the new Dyker Meadow Park... which will be the only seaside park in Greater New York. "The article also explains the exclusivity of the property, which can be seen in" large stone pillars with heavy wrought iron lamps and rolls "that adorn the entrance. In December 1899, Brooklyn Eagle reported that, "Recent work has begun on thirty upper class homes, demand that runs heat off with supplies."
Johnson set a very high standard for society: the Wall Street Journal explains that "property is carefully restricted to all distractions and no buildings can be erected on plots less than 60 feet (18 m) wide by 100 feet (30 m) in depth, and each building should cost at least $ 4,000 and stand well back from the road. "These rules, similar to Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea, were active until 1915. However, the most desirable feature in the area is still "undisturbed view of the lower bay of The Narrows to Sandy Hook and the Atlantic Ocean, which is one of the most remarkable in the country, and elsewhere in the consolidated city there is something to compare with. can be seen panoramic sea that is hard to beat. "Dyker Heights so eager that important members of the community flocked to it. The Brooklyn Eagle reported in December 1899 that it was "draining" on more established social environments such as Brooklyn Heights and people in Manhattan, "almost threatening to bring down the social tone of the environment in which this universal exodus affecting gradual changes in population characters. "
The 19th and early 20th centuries
The property on 84th Street near 13th Avenue was available for the International Sunshine Society in 1906 by lawyer, financier, and promoter George E. Crater, Jr. The public was able to acquire a house of $ 11,000, roughly half the market value, and opened The Dyker Heights Home for Blind Babies on 1 November 1906. Cynthia W. Alden, Mary C. Seward, and other community officials worked with the City of New York City Board to establish the first public kindergarten for blind children at home in 1907. The original building has disappeared, but the work begun at Dyker Heights provides a significant legacy of reform in the public education of blind children in New York and other parts of the Americas Union.
One of the many environmental focal points is the Dyker Heights Club, which began in October 1896. In the spring of 1898, the Club had a $ 30,000 clubhouse designed by Albert Edward Parfitt on the $ 8,500 lot, 200ÃÆ'â € "200 in size, northeast corner of 13th Avenue and 86th Street. Johnson moved his real estate office into the clubhouse and hired a full-time architect, Constantine Schubert, who is also the owner of Dyker Heights's home. This great neo-classical building was destroyed in 1929 by Archbishop John Hughes of the Knights of Columbus Club, when they bought the property for $ 60,000.
Early in the history of Dyker Heights, Walter L. Johnson constantly buys consecutive lands until the Dyker Heights boundary extends from 79th Street to the north, approximately 86th Street to the south, Tenth Avenue to the west, and about 300 feet (90 m) east of 13th Avenue to the east. However, the boundaries of the Dyker Heights Environment are now determined by the Dyker Heights Post Office in the northwest corner of 13th and 84th Streets; along its northeastern edge, Bay Ridge Avenue; 16th Avenue is the southeastern boundary; Fort Hamilton makes the southwest border; and Interstate 278 is the northwest boundary.
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Demographics
The first inhabitants are local government officials or wealthy professionals. For example, IM De Varona is a Water Bure Engineer, Clarence Barrow is a former Fire Commissioner, William C. Bryant is the current Fire Commissioner, George W. Dickinson is a cotton merchant, W. Bennett Wardell is a Retired Judge, Richard Perry Chittenden is Corporate Corporate Assistant, Freeland Willcox is Corporate Secretary of Vaseline Cheeseborough, and Eugene Boucher is a helmsman and insurance broker.
Italian-American homeowners at Dyker Heights initially numbered little, and included Dr. Lorenzo Ullo, Italian Navigation General Company Adviser, and Simone Saitta, Manhattan wholesale fruit dealer. However, Walter L. Johnson did not really care about the Italians, especially the poor Italians. The Brooklyn Eagle explains the problems Johnson encountered with certain Italian families in a home that was then owned by Walter L. Johnson, housed by Italian families, to whom Mr. Johnson paid $ 600 to empty it in order the Dyker Heights neighborhood, which is very carefully curtailed, may not have any unpleasant features about it. "In 1940 Dyker Heights was inhabited by an Italian majority majority of whom helped establish the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Bernadette (ca. 1935) in 13th Avenue between 82 and 83 streets.
census 2010
Based on data from the US Census 2010, the population of Dyker Heights is 42,419, an increase of 3,087 (7.8%) from 39,332 counted in 2000. Covering an area of ​​686.31 acres (277.74 ha), the environment has a population density of 61, 8 souls per acre (39,600/sq., Mi; 15,300/km 2 ).
Environmental racial makeup is 70.2% White, 0.1% African American, 0.0% Native Americans, 27.1% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islanders, 0.1% of other races, and 1.0 % (430) of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 5.9% of the population.
Famous citizen
Notable current and former residents of Dyker Heights include: Scott Baio (born 1960), actor famous for his work on programs like Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant , and Charles in Charge.
Home
Design
In December 1899, Brooklyn Eagle wrote a very detailed description of the homes in Dyker Heights:
The typical Dyker Heights residence has five rooms each on the first and second floors and four rooms on the third and second floors. Upon entry, inmates or visitors are escorted to a 12-foot-wide hall that runs back to the maid kitchen. To the right of this hall is the living room and library and to the left of the reception and dining room. The back room is taken by a kitchen, butler kitchen and toilet with tiled floors. Birdseye maple is used in finishing the living room and oak in the middle of the library, one with the same wooden coat in luxurious tile finishing. A large fireplace with ornamental decoration complements the mural decor. The ceiling was ten feet high on the first floor, while nine feet was the height of the second floor and eight feet from the third floor. Usually the dining room is fifteen square meters and finished in quartered sycamore. Like the hall, the reception hall is released in the oak tree, but is round and has a diameter of ten feet. In the kitchen was a glass-lined fireplace, while at the bottom of the stairs, talking from the first floor, there was a warehouse and sink, with a depth of eight feet, and a double asphalt concrete floor.
Of the five rooms on the second floor, one is a sitting room and the rest are sleeping apartments, all of which have been completed in oak and sycamore in rows. The large bathroom with tiled floors occupy the rest of the space from the second story. Climbing to the third floor we find a plain cypress as an endless settlement of apartments, comprising two servant chambers, a card or sitting room and a pool side living room and provided chairs for the performers and spectators. It may be further noted that the reception and dining room are also built with a height of six feet.
Of the approximately 150 houses originally built by Walter L. Johnson, about half remain; while others have been flattened and replaced by large Mediterranean villas, condominiums, and semi-built houses and fully equipped. Very few new homes fit into the historic context of Dyker Heights, and many original surviving homes have been extensively renovated and renovated.
Christmas decorations
Dyker Heights is now best known for Christmas lights and decorations established annually by its inhabitants. It has been called "the warmest heart of Con Ed," "the undisputed capital of the Christmas procession," and "the king of Christmas lights." The Christmas lights are now the core of Dyker Heights identity, because the whole community, not just one house or one block, participates. Thus, Dyker Heights has been referred to as "the epicenter of a professionally hung up Christmas light". Most holiday decorations in this area are not established by homeowners, but by local decorating companies, but the cost of hiring a professional decorator can vary greatly, from $ 1,000 to $ 20,000 or more, depending on the scale of the screen; many companies also offer additional services, including the option to record and save the decor.
Although in December the lights began to be unclear, newspaper reports and tours in the area suggested it began around the 1980s. In 1985, a Lou Singer began touring (Singer's Brooklyn) through the brightest parts of Bensonhurst, Canarsie, Bay Ridge, and Dyker Heights where one can find "designer lighting." Since the early 1980s of the report, the Dyker Heights lights have become increasingly popular in New York as many newspaper articles, news programs, documentaries, and remotes are made. Initially, the two most famous houses are on 84th Street, between 11 and 12 roads, just across from each other. Lucy Spata House with its Santa theme at 1152 84th St and Alfred Polizzotto with its Nutcracker motif at 1145 84th St.
Example
In December 1998, the Spatas house was filled with lights, flaming soldiers and choirboy, and other Christmas figures. The inside is decorated with 50 motorized dolls, village miniatures and many gifts. Outside Santa, played by his nephew, greets the children and others who pass by.
The white house, owned by Alfred Polizzotto and his family, is decorated with a pair of 29 feet (8,8 m) wooden soldiers who watch and wave their hands. The front yard raises horses and quartets of dancers. In 1988, Polizzotto was diagnosed with lymphoma, which was successfully treated the following year. To celebrate his victory, Polizzotto installed the screen the following year and from then on. In 2001, Polizzotto died; However, his family continued the tradition in his honor.
In 1996, Casos, who moved to Dyker Heights in 1995 and has since been moved, has Midwood artist Carl Oliveri designing Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol," which includes 29 human-sized figures on their front yard at 1062 84th St..
In 2000, Conan O'Brien filmed the remote for Late Night with Conan O'Brien at Dyker Heights. A PBS documentary broadcast on television "Dyker Lights" was produced in 2001 as an insight into the environment with stories involving Christmas lights.
Political representation
- And Donovan - House of Representatives from New York's 13th Congress District.
- Martin J. Golden - New York State Senate in New York's 22nd Senator District.
- Justin Brannan - New York City Council, 43rd Board District of New York.
- Peter Abbate - New York State Assembly in the 49th District of New York.
- Brooklyn Community Board 10 (MAP)
- Cyber ​​Dyker Heights Association
Civil services
- BRAVO Volunteer Ambulance - BRAVO, Volunteer Ambulance Organization of Bay Ridge
- Brooklyn Public Library - Dyker Heights Branch
- New York City Fire Department - Machine Company 284, Ladder Company 149
- New York City Police Department - 68th Police Station
- United States Post Office - Dyker Heights Branch
Crime
According to the CompStat (Computing Data) database of the New York City Police Department for the 68th Area, Dyker Heights is one of the safest neighborhoods in all of New York City, with 86.01% reduction in all crimes since 1990. Most notably, 74% since 1990 with one case in 2014 and none in 2008.
There are 11 cases of rape reported in 2014, consistent with a 57.7% decline since 1993. There were 79 robberies and 147 robberies in 2014, down 83.1% and 83.9%, respectively, since 1993. Felony's offense claims have declined by 55.9% since 1990, with 105 cases by 2014. Major thefts, having a total of 346 cases by 2014, and massive stealing for cars, with 94 reports in 2014, also falling, respectively - 9.2% and 94% respectively.
Transportation
The Dyker Heights Center is not serviced by Subway New York City, but its neighboring community is. Bay Ridge is served by BMT Fourth Avenue Line (train R ), with stations on Bay Ridge Avenue, 77th Street, 86th Street and 95th Street. The southern end of Boro Park is served by BMT Sea Beach Line (train N and W ), with stations on Fort Hamilton Parkway and New Utrecht Avenue. Bensonhurst is served by BMT West End Line (train D ), with stations on 79th Street, 71st Street and 62nd Street.
Several New York City bus routes and one express route serve Dyker Heights; routes are B1, B4, B16, B64, B70, X28.
Private
- Poly Prep School (Pre-K - Class 12)
Parokial
- Leif Ericson Day School (Pra-K - kelas 8; Gereja Lutheran Injili di Amerika)
- St. Bernadette School (Pre-K - 8th Grade; Roman Catholic)
- St. Ephrem School (Pre-K - 8th Grade; Roman Catholic)
Audience
- JHS 201 Dyker Heights (Kelas 6 - Kelas 8)
- JHS 259 ​​â € Å" William Mckinley (Kelas 6 - Kelas 8)
- PS 127 Mckinley Park (Kindergarten - 5th Grade)
- PS-IS 229 Dyker (Pra-Kindergarten - 8th Grade)
- PS 204 Vince Lombardi (Pra Kindergarten - Grade 5)
- PS 163 Bath Beach (Pra-Kindergarten-5th Grade)
- PS 112 Lefferts Park (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
- PS 176 Sekolah Ovington (Kindergarten - 5th Grade) http://www.ps176.org/
Early Childhood Education
- Lefferts Park Baptist Church Daycare (2 years - 6 years old)
Parks and golf courses
There is a public park and an 18-hole golf course, championship golf course in southwest Dyker Heights.
References
External links
- Media related to Dyker Heights, Brooklyn on Wikimedia Commons
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