This combination photo shows planters placed on the stoop of homes in New York. Front stoops have long welcomed visitors to city homes, and have served as gathering spots for friends and neighbors ...

NEW YORK – Front stoops have long welcomed visitors to city homes and have served as gathering spots for friends and neighbors engaging in what urban design activist Jane Jacobs called “the sidewalk ...

I’m having a stoop in front of a frame house in the South Slope rebuilt and the contractor has recommended trying bluestone steps. All of the houses in the area have either limestone or concrete steps ...

I’m thinking of paving the ground-level area by the stoop (very high stoop, btw). A few neighbors have put in cleft/textured black slate (12X24). I’m thinking of doing the same or putting down ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Front stoops have long welcomed visitors to city homes, and have served as gathering spots for friends and neighbors engaging in what urban design activist Jane Jacobs called “the ...

NEW YORK – Front stoops have long welcomed visitors to city homes, and have served as gathering spots for friends and neighbors engaging in what urban design activist Jane Jacobs called “the sidewalk ...