Wyckoff Heights, New York Wyckoff Heights, New York Wyckoff Heights is an area of New York City along the Brooklyn-Queens border in northwest Bushwick and southwest Ridgewood. Wyckoff Heights 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 (founded in 1895 and rebuilt after a 1928 fire, now the Ridgewood Pentecostal Church). The Wyckoff Heights Post Office (zip code 11237) at 86 Wyckoff Avenue was opened in 1951 and serves north Bushwick and the Brooklyn portion
Gordon Heights, New York Island, more than two miles away. While portions of these facilities are within the census tract and/or the fire department boundaries, neither is part of the Gordon Heights community, and the correct geography for Gordon Heights is an L-shaped outline (as shown in Google Maps and other sources). Gordon Heights had its beginnings in the early 1920s, when developer Louis Fife went to Black neighborhoods in New York City (Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx) with the offer of land and a better life on Long Island. Land was offered as low as $10 down and $10 monthly or $10 weekly.