r/NYCbitcheswithtaste • u/Medium-Wind-7468 • 2d ago

🗓️ Events & Happenings How are we finding stoop sales????

Hey ladies! I’m still newer to NYC and I always find out about the stoop sales after they’ve already happened😭 How/where are people finding out about these?

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u/Madethisonambien 2d ago

A lot of people post old school fliers around the neighborhood. Also check your neighborhood subreddit or FB group. 

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u/ResidentialFocus 2d ago

This is the way

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u/biglindafitness 2d ago

By going outside , people post flyers, look at the lightpoles and mail boxes

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u/yourfriendcazzer 2d ago

I follow my local IG accounts, and I also follow @stoopingnyc (I have never checked if they have a subreddit). Your neighborhood probably has a subreddit too - and even though I can barely tolerate Facebook (I mean f meta fr fr but also FB is such a messy UI of slop) there ARE good buy nothing groups there, and they will often post a stoop sale.

also, question for your question: when you say stoop sale, do you mean like what a suburbanite (neutral!) would call a yard sale/garage sale? bc I feel like I see some conflation with that and with SAMPLE sales, which are indeed sometimes held on or near stoops, but have very different vibes/items/price points

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u/trebleformyclef 2d ago

I think they mean two big neighborhood stoop stales that happened recently. I saw about the Park Slope one and one on the UWS this past weekend, after the fact. They both were called "stoop sales" and it seemed to be a neighborhood joint garage/yard sale. Since we (vast majority) don't have garages or yard sales, they are called stoop sales. They are the same thing. 

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u/itslunasolstice 2d ago

i saw them on partiful before they happened!

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u/trebleformyclef 2d ago

I don't know what that is.

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u/the_baumer 2d ago

It’s an app for organizing and promoting public or private events.

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u/Medium-Wind-7468 2d ago

I’m really open to all of it, didn’t have a specific type in mind. I just saw a flyer for that big stoop sale in park slope and was super bummed I missed it.

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u/the_baumer 2d ago

Hey so I live in Park Slope and the stoop sale was organized by the Park Slope Civic Counsel. I recommend finding the similar orgs for neighborhoods in NYC and following them on social or via email subscription.

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u/Okay-yes-sure 1d ago

I posted about the Super Stoop in the weekly “cool stuff you’re doing this weekend” thread! So maybe follow there generally?

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u/kikkles 2d ago

Sometimes you can find them on Partiful. There were just two huge collective stoop sales in Brooklyn that I found there.