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
Jackson Heights, Queens game Scrabble was co-invented by former architect Alfred Mosher Butts, who lived in Jackson Heights. There is a street sign at 35th Avenue and 81st Street that is stylized using letters, with their values in Scrabble as a subscript; it was originally erected in 1995 but disappeared in 2008, and a new sign was subsequently put up in 2011. Jackson Heights has followed the general crime patterns of New York City. After crime spikes in the 1970s into the 1990s, crime has declined significantly. According to New York City Police Department CompStat statistics, measured crime has declined more than 74%