Wyckoff Heights, New York

Wyckoff Heights is an area of New York City along the Brooklyn-Queens border in northwest Bushwick / southwest Ridgewood.

Neighborhood development started in 1910, after portions of the farm of Peter Wyckoff were sold off for development. Houses were first built on Gates Avenue and Linden Street (near Cypress Avenue) by the Ring-Gibson Company and the G. X. Mathews Company. The last 18 acres were purchased and developed in 1945.

The area was home first to many German immigrants, followed by Italian and more recently Latino and Eastern-European residents.

The neighborhood is home to the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center at Wyckoff Avenue and Stockholm Street (originally the German Hospital of Brooklyn, renamed in 1918) and the former Wyckoff Heights Presbyterian Church at Harman Street and St. Nicholas Avenue (now the Ridgewood Pentecostal Church). The Wyckoff Heights post office, ZIP 11237, at 86 Wyckoff Avenue serves north Bushwick as well as Wyckoff Heights.