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 countdown clock, affixed to an inflatable chimney and surrounded by Santa Claus, an animate gingerbread man in a Santa hat, Rudolf the Red-Nose Reindeer in a Santa Hat, and a Christmas Tree, I knew that I had to document it. As I photographed the new Christmas countdown clock, I recalled that I had at some time published an article on early Christmas countdown decorations, albeit I did not recall at that moment that I had done so in 2025. I also did not realize in the moment that this may be the same residence that had put out the less elaborate-but-equally-early snowman countdown clock in 2025. Compare the below photo with my 2025 photo.
I think the 2025 snowman may be in the same location as the larger 2026 decoration.
While this is my second early Brooklyn Christmas countdown clock report, it is my third overall. Back on December 22, 2023, I documented a Christmas countdown clock that, insofar as I know, was not set up in September. I suppose this new 2026 decoration also fits in with my past reports on Christmas menageries and Santa Hats.
Today is October 1, and I have just started to see a few Halloween decorations out (at least one neighborhood store had Halloween stuff out in July). As regular readers will know, I have mixed views on the Brooklyn Halloween aesthetic. But here we see at least one Brooklyn residence is skipping over Halloween, Evacuation Day, and Thanksgiving to jump straight into Christmas.
