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Dyker Heights is a predominantly residential neighborhood in the southwest corner of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is on a hill between Bay Ridge , Bensonhurst , Borough Park , and Gravesend Bay .
The maps below compare the 1850, 1880, and 1910 street grids in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Completing the street and road network allows us to map each residence counted in the 1850, 1880, and 1910 censuses to a historically accurate address.
Click on the date links to see NYC land atlases and maps: NYC Land Atlases (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island) NYC & vicinity. 1776 / 1777 / 1781 / 1828 / 1835 / 1839 / 1842 1849 / 1849ii / 1873 / 1880 / 1909 / 1911 / 1922 New York Harbor. 1733 / 1733ii / 1737 / 1749 or 1767 / 1750? 1775 / 1776 / 1779 / 1781 / 1784-1794 / 1820
BROOKLYN ATLAS INDEX. NOTE: Dates of the form 1904/12 indicate that the atlas was published in 1904 and updated with pasted corrections in 1912. Neighborhoods have been determined according to The Neighborhoods of New York City, Kenneth T. Jackson, ed., 1998. Microfiche is available for all volumes. Title.
Built as a speculative luxury housing development in the late nineteenth century by Walter L. Johnson, Dyker Heights was the “Handsomest Suburb in Greater New York.” Historian Christian J. Zaino and filmmaker Angelo Bonsignore present the lost history of their Brooklyn neighborhood in this hour-long doc.
Dyker Heights History. On December 22, 2014, historian Christian J. Zaino, MD and filmmaker Angelo Bonsignore released the lost history of our neighborhood in an hour-long YouTube documentary.
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Dyker Heights is a residential neighborhood in the southwest corner of the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City, USA. It is sandwiched among Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Gravesend Bay. According to the Post Office, Dyker Heights is bounded to the west by Interstate 278, to the north by Bay Ridge Avenue, to the east by Fourteenth Avenue, and to ...