COOL OR NOT COOL: THE NYPD SHUTTING DOWN A STOOP SALE?

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This past weekend, police in Park Slope put the kibosh on a seemingly innocent New York City institution: the stoop sale. That's right -- the police took time out of their day to SHUT DOWN A COUPLE SELLING A FEW ITEMS ON THE SIDEWALK. When the cruiser first pulled up, the sellers believed that police were looking to cop some nearby doughnuts from a bodega (or perhaps they hoped the two cops would excitedly rummage through their vast collection of ‘Wham’ cassettes, Spring Break ’99 tees, and IKEA couture). The sordid tale was recently recounted on Brooklynian's forum:

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Rules of Engagement For a Park Slope Stoop Sale

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Spring is officially here, which means that you have two spring cleaning options:  

1. Get a Zip car, go to IKEA, buy a bunch of "storage solutions" and crap up your apartment with Grundtal shelves and Samla boxes.

Or...

2. Have a stoop sale.  

Between those options, the latter choice is clearly the one that proves to all your friends and family that you are not, in fact, a "hoarder."  If you're taking the first option, well, congratulations!  You've now cleared room for even more craptastic stuff!  Why not go to a stoop sale to see what you can get?  Either way, navigating your way through the perils of hosting and/or visiting a stoop sale can be extremely challenging.  Fortunately for you, we're here to help with these handy rules of engagement for stoop sales.

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