Large houses with columns, iron balconies and driveways climb a hillside above the Belt Parkway, with the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge towers on the skyline.
What Dyker Heights looks like
The hill's crest runs along 11th, 12th and s, where large detached houses sit behind lawns and clipped hedges. Some carry a columned entrance holding up a second floor iron balcony, others are faced in stucco with half timbering and diamond paned windows. Driveways run beside the houses to a garage at the rear, and a few of the older gateposts still carry wrought iron lamps.
The , at 1135 84th Street, is a Queen Anne dwelling from 1899 listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Architect John J. Petit gave it gables, a deep porch and stucco walls patterned in half timbering. Away from the crest the houses are smaller and more often attached to the one next door, with a shared driveway rather than a lawn out front.
13th Avenue holds the neighborhood's small commercial stretch at its southern end, with fabric awnings and painted signs over narrow storefronts. , a domed basilica on 12th Avenue, is the tallest structure for blocks around. The stands at a corner of 11th Avenue in red brick with a white cupola. keeps a stretch of the original rolling ground the rest of the streets have long since lost.
The Gowanus Expressway runs along the neighborhood's edge toward the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and the bridge's towers are visible on the skyline from the higher blocks above the Belt Parkway. The streets climb and dip with the hill, unlike the flattened grid of the blocks below toward the water.
Shot in Dyker Heights
Netflix's limited series Black Rabbit filmed on this block of 74th Street between 13th and 14th Avenues in 2024, one of the real Brooklyn streets the production used rather than building a set. The crew closed the block twice, in April and again in August, for exterior work on a private house partway down the street.
Black Rabbit, 2025
Street permits placed the shoot on this stretch of 74th Street, with a specific address at 1357 74th Street logged for a full day of filming in August 2024. The crew worked from the block's own driveways and front steps rather than building anything, the same houses and hedges a location scout would find today.
What Dyker Heights can double for
Todt Hill in Staten Island, New York
Large houses set behind long driveways and gates climb Staten Island's highest hill in the same way Dyker Heights climbs its own, both cut off from the surrounding grid by a slope rather than a highway. The oak woods around Todt Hill's houses are thicker and the lots run bigger, but the columned porticoes and circular driveways are the same shape of house. Todt Hill's driveways run longer and its trees screen more of each house, so a frame that includes a neighbor's roofline gives away the wider lots. Keep the camera tight on one house's own approach to hold the match. Try searching columned porticoes and circular driveways now.
Hancock Park's large brick and stucco houses from the 1920s sit on deep lawns with no front fences, the same set back scale Dyker Heights uses for its own hilltop houses. Both neighborhoods use a column framed entrance and a side driveway rather than a garage facing the street. Hancock Park is flat where Dyker Heights climbs a hill, so a wide shot that includes the street's own grade gives away which coast it is. Keep the horizon out of frame and the comparison holds. Try searching brick and stucco houses now.
Hampstead Garden Suburb stands on curving streets of redbrick and roughcast houses built between the 1900s and the 1930s. Wide grass verges and clipped hedges front a similar scale of detached house to Dyker Heights, though the suburb follows a single planned pattern rather than a developer's individual lots. The suburb's Arts and Crafts detailing, tile hanging and roughcast render, stands out as English rather than American in a close shot. This match works best in a wide street view rather than on one house's own front door. Try searching redbrick and roughcast houses now.
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