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When the lights go on, the electricity bills go up.
In these other white quite Brooklyn neighborhood called “Dyker Heights”.
How much you ask?
For some homes aboout $3,000 to $4,000 per month.
It is nicknamed the handsomest suburb in Greater New York, but come to holiday season, it takes on a slightly different personality.
It is Christmas on stereotype, and each year, it gets bigger and bigger.
“Every year, there's more and more people, even have tour buses coming here now, which is something I never thought I'd see in Brooklyn.”
Not to mention the occasional 14-passenger private SUV stretch limousine.
Nearly everyone's favorite “Is it a house with the big nutcrackers?”
“The huge nutcrackers.”
So infinitely not nutcrackers that would be Lucy Spata's house with the tradition began at the 1980s.
What began as a simple display now features over 20,000 lights.
Suzanne Lechnos has been a regular since the very beginning, and she is a Brooklyn as Brooklyn gets.
She says Dyker Lights isn't what it used to be.
“It was colder, and there were only three lights, and now there are 130,000 lights.
That's the difference.”
Across the street from are the Polizzottos, perhaps Lucy's greatest competition.
Their house features a 15-foot tall, 800-pound robotic Santa Claus, along with his wooden toy soldiers, and carousels on the top..
“There was a great Christmas film that was shown all the time on television Babes in Toyland and that's restored and turned his front yard into Toyland”.
And everyone loves toys.
“It is like a winter wonderland for the kids and the big kids.”
