page_title: Wyckoff Heights, New York
section_title: Residential
hierarchical_section_title: Wyckoff Heights, New York / Land use / Residential
caption_attribution_description: English: Semi-attached houses on Dekalb Avenue - Wyckoff Heights, New York
context_page_description: Wyckoff Heights is an area within the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, straddling the border between Bushwick, Brooklyn, and southwest Ridgewood, Queens. Wyckoff Heights was urbanized starting in the late 19th century, and took its name from the Wyckoff family, who owned the land. The area was home first to many German immigrants, later followed by Italian and more recently Latino and Eastern-European residents.
  Wyckoff Heights is located largely within ZIP Codes 11237 and 11385. Points of interest include Wyckoff Heights Medical Center and the former Wyckoff Heights Presbyterian Church.
context_section_description: The first buildings constructed in the neighborhood were largely attached wood frame three- and six-family row houses. 
  Around the turn of the century, as urbanization moved northeast towards the borough line and into Queens, developers switched to masonry construction in order to conform to new building and fire codes.  Many of these buildings are now part of the Cypress Avenue West Historic District.
  In the 1940s the last large-scale development in the neighborhood saw the construction of more automobile-oriented attached single-family homes with alleys and garages in the rear.
caption: Semi-attached houses on DeKalb Avenue
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