The Stoop

Stoop (noun): The street scape of New York City has included outdoor steps, commonly called stoops, which provide access to the principal floor of a residence, since the early nineteenth century. Although stoops did exist elsewhere, nowhere was the stoop as universal a feature or found on as grand a scale as in New York. Generations of New Yorkers speak of the rich heritage of sitting out on ones stoop observing the life of their neighborhood.