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 ...

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 ...

KITTERY, Maine – What began as mismatched batches of unwanted pottery placed on the stone steps of 44 Government St., has months later translated into $3,500 in community donations to Footprints Food ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the 80th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...

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 ...

A good front porch greets your guests, while a great one welcomes them. View three of our favorite Northern Michigan porches to learn how you can turn your front stoop into the most loved room in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...