Brooklyn
South Slope
This house is located at 310A 22nd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The very ambitious and creative homeowners make everything by hand in their backyard—no pre-fab strings of lights at all! This house has a different theme and storyline every season. The show runs nightly between 5-10pm on weeknight and on Fri. & Sat. until 11pm. The show is about 5 minutes and happens every twenty minutes starting at 5 (so 5, 5:20, 5:40, 6 etc)
How to get there:
The closest subway station is the 25th Street R stop. If you drive, you'll probably need to park a few blocks away. The display understandably causes a traffic jam.
Dyker Heights
Dyker Heights is super-famous for its Christmas light displays. There's a PBS documentary called Dyker Lights, countless videos on YouTube and once, even Conan O'Brien visited (sadly that hilarious clip is not currently available online). The displays run from 11th to 13th Avenues between 83rd and 86th Streets.
How to get there:
Subways: D/M trains to 18th Ave and New Utrecht Avenue ; R train to 86th Street and 4th Avenue. Bus: You can take the B63 bus to 5th Avenue and 86th Street.
Driving: Take the Belt Parkway to Exit 4 (park before 84th Street and 12th Avenue, walk up 84th to 10th Ave). Be warned: parking is near impossible and the traffic is really slow. If you can, find a parking spot a bit away from the hubbub and walk to the lights.
Canarsie
The house in Canarsie at the corner of East 93rd St. and Flatlands Ave with its carousel, santa’s elves and nativity scene from Milan has 250,000 lights. According to the Brooklyn Daily, this year’s spectacular display will showcase a “cast of 100 animated characters (that) includes a new, singing-talking-joke-cracking parrot, and Stumpy, the fan-favorite talking Christmas tree. Eight wondrous displays feature vignettes depicting Hanukkah and Kwanza, and there’s a 12-foot wreath crowning the roof”. The owner of the home, Frank Seddio, no longer lives there but uses it as his law firm’s office.
How to get there: .
Driving: Take Atlantic Ave to Rockaway Ave, right on Foster Ave and then left on E. 93rd Street and end at Flatlands Ave.
Subway/Bus: Take the 4 to New Lots Station. Then take the B60 bus towards Canarsie Williams Ave, get off at Glenwood Road and 98th Street and walk about 8 minutes to Flatlands and E. 93rd Street.
Long Island
Lindenhurst
Since the late '90s, these Long Island homeowners have been seriously decking their halls with over-the-top holiday lights. Visitors can marvel at the more than 32,000 strings of lights that adorn their house and property, including a 21-foot-tall Christmas tree made of lights, giant inflatable decorations and even a glittering New Year's Eve ball that drops down a 20-foot pole as the clock strikes midnight on December 31. The lights blink in time to the music broadcast from their very own one-block radius radio station.
How to get there: The house is located at 405 North Broadway in Lindenhurst, Long Island, about an hour drive from midtown Manhattan.
You can find several other LI holiday lights locations on http://long-island.newsday.com/guides/holidays/map-of-long-island-holiday-lights-1.2549508
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