86 Days Until Christmas: Seen in Carroll Gardens

On October 3, 2025, I published a local Brooklyn news report titled Christmas Countdown Clock in September. The article began: I was walking up Degraw Street on the afternoon of September 29, 2025, when I happened across an unexpected seasonal decoration: An inflatable snowman with a Christmas countdown clock. As you can see in the original link, I did deliver the promised inflatable snowman with a Christmas countdown clock, which accurately indicated that we were 86 days away from Christmas. I was not thinking of my 2025 Christmas countdown clock report when I walked up Degraw street – from Clinton to Court – on September 29, 2026. I was thinking about buying coffee beans at D’Amico’s, which sits just off Degraw and Court in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. But something briefly distracted me from my coffee purchasing mission. That something was an even more elaborate inflatable Christmas countdown clock indicating that there were 86 days until Christmas. As soon as I saw this Christmas…