Telling Your Stories, One Neighborhood Stoop at a Time

Photos of Brooklyn Stoops c.1977 from Whiskeygonebad’s Flickr
From the 92Y Blog:

Your building’s stoop. A community institution as important as the barber shop or coffee shop. It is where you meet your friends, watch people pass by, flirt with girls, listen to your music, or talk with your super. The stoop in New York City is your building’s community center.

If you are blessed to experience that stoop in New York City, you are blessed to know of an experience that approaches the status of a national treasure. And if your stoop is in Brooklyn, well there is a good chance your experience with it has been immortalized in movies, books, poems, art work, and song.

Over at the 92Y, they celebrate the culture of the stoop, namely the stories you listen to or share while on it.

On March 26, presented in conjunction with The Storytelling Center, The 92Y presents the series Stories From The Stoop: Borough Park, Brooklyn. You probably want to go.