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Brooklyn neighborhood No.1 on Christmas lights list

Way to shine, Dyker Heights!

A Brooklyn neighborhood that goes bonkers for Christmas gained some national notoriety when it landed at the top of a list of best neighborhoods for holiday lights, according to a survey by real estate company Redfin.

Dyker Heights, home of the annual “Dyker Lights,” placed No. 1 for the second straight year on Redfin’s annual Christmas lights list, which the realty company launched in 2012.

But the news is a mixed holiday blessing for some locals put out by throngs of visitors.

“It gets crazy” said one Dyker Heights resident, who didn’t want to be identified for fear of upsetting neighbors in the close-knit community. She described tour buses rumbling along narrow streets, idling loudly and disgorging gawkers who fire off camera flashes, trample lawns and gardens, and leave garbage.

“I mean, even the Hampton Jitney comes, and these streets aren’t meant for tour buses,” she said, describing her own holiday house lights as “normal.”

It got so bad on Saturday night, she added, one festively lit street was closed off to vehicles — and even residents had trouble getting back into their homes.

“It got out of hand,” she said.

The dazzling holiday bulb display even has its own Facebook page, “Dyker Heights Christmas Lights,” with more than 2,000 “Likes.”

The light-stringing elves of Dyker Heights were profiled by PBS in 2000, and ribbed by Conan O’Brien on “Late Night” in 2001. In that bit, O’Brien pointed to a giant, illuminated talking Santa that towered over one lawn, and joked that it was visible from space: “Several astronauts have called it tacky from 15 miles up.”

Holiday fame has its downsides, too, and Dyker Heights might be feeling a bit strung out from the attention.

A post on Sunday to their Facebook page reads, “Tourists and tour guides. Please have respect for the homeowners and do not double park on the heavily decorated streets or block any driveways. People live in these homes and are living their daily lives, while providing you all with festive displays. Don’t make it difficult for them.”

“I’d hate to see the blocks get blocked off to traffic altogether,” the post concludes.

Neighborhoods in Baltimore, Md., Portland, Ore., Austin, Texas and Philadelphia, Pa., finished behind Dyker Heights to round out Redfin’s top five.

The realtor also saluted four other local holiday hot spots that gave Dyker Heights a spirited challenge: Maspeth, for a quartet of look-alike, light-alike houses on 69th Street; a jolly “Christmas House” on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx; a decorative lighter-upper in Lindenhurst; and a Bayside house featured on this month’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” episode of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”