2 Awesome Christmas Light Displays: See What Neighbors Recommend

DEER PARK, NY — Patch put out a call for recommendations on the best holiday light shows at individual homes and neighborhoods across the region, and we've already gotten one in Deer Park and one in North Babylon.

A house at 156 W 15th St. in Deer Park will be all lit up from Dec. 2 through Jan. 2. Lights are generally on from 5-10 p.m. Please admire from the street! The owners ask that no one walk on the lawn, for safety and to avoid damage to the display.

Head to Avelaine Court, where there will be more than 30,000 lights glittering through the holiday. There's also a sleigh you can sit in for photo ops. Check out the Santa hologram window effect! The lights are synced to music played through a FM radio station. It's a 2022 Babylon Beautification Committee winner.

We're still accepting recommendations, by the way. Email with locations.

For many of us, taking in our neighbors’ outdoor holiday lighting displays and other decorative touches is as much a part of the season as exchanging gifts and singing Christmas carols.

Patch and T-Mobile are partnering to help you compile a list of lights around Deer Park and North Babylon that deserve a drive-by.

There’s a good reason twinkling holiday lights and colorful displays make us feel good, according to mental health experts.

“It does create that neurological shift that can produce happiness ,” Psychologist Deborah Serani, a senior professor at New York’s Adelphi University, told NBC’s “Today” show. “I think anything that takes us out of our normal habituation, the normal day in, day out ... signals our senses, and then our senses measure if it’s pleasing or not.”

Decorating for the holidays “will spike dopamine , a feel-good hormone,” she said. “For a lot of us, Christmas is a magical time, it’s a time of innocence. It’s a time of joy.”

So who else has great light displays around North Babylon and Deer Park? Let us know the address. Also please send a photo (that you took yourself) to appear in our holiday roundups!