In cities, stoops are like shopping malls where everything is free. Books, furniture, clothes—all of it has found its way to the front stoop, where passersby can peruse whatever their neighbor wants ...

It’s quintessential New York: The front stoop. "It's actually a very safe space where people tend to feel really at home sharing vulnerability with each other,” said Marj Kleinman, the founder of ...

Sarah Jessica Parker, as Carrie Bradshaw, descends the front steps at 66 Perry Street in Manhattan in “And Just Like That ...,” a spinoff of “Sex and the City,” which ran on HBO from 1998 until 2004.

The unseasonably cold spring has imposed an unfortunate side effect on my Brooklyn neighborhood – the delay of “stoop sitting” season. For most Americans, the front-door step is a miserly shelf barely ...