What goes up, must come down. In Dyker Heights, the process of taking down the over-the-top Christmas displays that draw crowds from far and wide is itself a complicated undertaking. “The neighborhood looked as if it had been struck by a neutron bomb that killed only Arctic animals. Cater-corner from Mr. Mazza’s house, a deflated polar bear lay at the feet of an animated wood-and-wire Rudolph that was frozen in midprance.”–NYT