Stoop Sales

anonymous · November 2005

Does anyone know why someone has been removing all the weekend
stoop sale signs from the Park Slope lampposts? Being an avid stoop sale shopper, this is very annoying. I check out Craig's list..but
still I think the person who is doing this should stop or at least wait until Monday if they are doing this a public service.

kevin_on_putnam · November 2005

I actually used to post notices on lightpoles for church concerts etc. and I have some first hand knowledge of the problems with this subject. First, technically, it's illegal. Occasionally the sanitation dept. will collect notices and issue fines to the posters. Second, the sanitation dept will organize workfare crews to go up and down seventh ave. and remove the posts. They usually do it on Saturday mornings. Third, some of the store owners on seventh take them down because they think they're ugly or competing with their businesses. More than you wanted to know right?

pitu · November 2005

There's also a couple of grumpy old men that are offended by signs . . . so peculiarly aggressive with their scrapping razors.

I wish they'd wait too. And I wish everybody would take down their own stoop sale signs when the thing is done.

bewitched · November 2005

One day I was walking around the UES and this kid was walking up to bus stops, pulling off every stray piece of tape he found stuck to the glass. What a wack job.

cat · November 2005

Subject: city council members' effort

I don't think it's department of sanitation. I think it is workers, volunteers, organized by bill diblasio and yassky's offices. I once encountered a guy removing them from 7th avenue early in the morning, very aggressively, as if he was protecting our very way of being. i asked him what was up and he said he was part of yassky's community something group. I also think there is a woman from the Park Slope Civic Council who does this, I've heard.

anonymous · November 2005

Subject: Re: city council members' effort

cat wrote: I don't think it's department of sanitation. I think it is workers, volunteers, organized by bill diblasio and yassky's offices. I once encountered a guy removing them from 7th avenue early in the morning, very aggressively, as if he was protecting our very way of being. i asked him what was up and he said he was part of yassky's community something group. I also think there is a woman from the Park Slope Civic Council who does this, I've heard.

Sanitation does take down the signs on the poles. Yassky's office probably does too but its part of sanitations task.

anonymous · November 2005

Subject: Signs and postings

Technically not kosher. Defaces public property. City employees, workfare folks and especially on Saturday volunteers come by [yes, the grumpy old men] and scrape 'em away. Some of the best stoop sale ads are written in coloured chalk on the street. Some are also posted on supermarket boards.
Hell, just walk around and look for a sale! PS ain't that big.

sterling2000 · November 2005

Subject: Use Chalk!

I encountered the flyer-rippers in the past and resorted to chalking sidewalks instead. The rippers seem like grumpy old Park Slopers who don't want their neighborhood of $1.5-2 million brownstones (that they bought for $50K in the 1970's) mucked up with weekend on-the-fly commerce.

Look under your feet for guidance to stoop sales -- one of the great parts about Park Slope! I've scored some sweet finds from the local literary set like first editions of valuable books for under $1 -- HST's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," Anne Rice's "Interview With A Vampire" (autographed) and Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" (autographed), just to name a few...

diane · November 2005

Subject: stoop sales

Thanks for all your replies. Yes, I have been checking under my feet,
and I have come across some great unadvertised sales. I love walking around the neighborhood on Sat. morning looking for the sales but the signs do help. I seriously think the fliers do not muck up the lampposts enough to outweigh the benefit of posting them. Recyling your stuff - one could say it is PC. I've met great people selling their stuff or raising money for a worthy cause by holding a sale. Of course taking down your own signs would be considerate but the next stoop sale poster can just as easily take down the outdated one. Kosher or not, I think whoever is removing them should get life and find some other way to do his or her civic duty! That said, I think it is about the end of the stoop sale season -
so sad. Happy thanksgiving to all - I'll be setting my table with great plates, bowls, glasses, I've gotten from the stoop sales.

anonymous · December 2005

Subject: posting isnt legal and no ever takes them down after sale

stoop sales should pay and post in slope papers not legal on lamp posts

anonymous · December 2005

Subject: slope sales

Just moved to PS from Manhattan and have to say I'm in LOVE with this place. And the greatest thing ever are these stoop sales. I've bought a perfectly new Ikea chair for $10, a removeable tray table for $3 and a white block end table for $0 (sitting outside my own stoop!). Walking around is how I've found most of the stoop sales. There's something magical about just happening on a sale and finding just the right thing (ie my Ikea chair - granted I carried it 5 blocks home by myself and I weigh as much as the chair - but still!).

pitu · December 2005

Subject: Re: slope sales

Anonymous wrote: Just moved to PS from Manhattan and have to say I'm in LOVE with this place. And the greatest thing ever are these stoop sales. I've bought a perfectly new Ikea chair for $10, a removeable tray table for $3 and a white block end table for $0 (sitting outside my own stoop!). Walking around is how I've found most of the stoop sales. There's something magical about just happening on a sale and finding just the right thing (ie my Ikea chair - granted I carried it 5 blocks home by myself and I weigh as much as the chair - but still!).

you can get all new free Ikea everything (already assembled, yeah) on bulk trash day (weds.thurs night), towards the end of the month . . . its incredible what people throw out here.

check craigslist free section for brooklyn, some people list their coordinates. I outfitted my friend's non-profit office in a couple of weeks with hardly any effort and two Zipcar rentals.

alafairnadia · December 2005

Subject: Re: slope sales

pitu wrote: check craigslist free section for brooklyn, some people list their coordinates. I outfitted my friend's non-profit office in a couple of weeks with hardly any effort and two Zipcar rentals.

you fucking rule! show up at a happy hour/festivus, and I'm buying you a shot.

rah · December 2005

Subject: Re: slope sales

alafairnadia wrote:
you fucking rule! show up at a happy hour/festivus, and I'm buying you a shot.

don't be fooled. alafairnadia routinely buys shots just to get the DHers at happy hour drunk. and if you say you don't want one the bartender will probably happen to have made "extras" by accident.

bewitched · December 2005

Yummm, lemon drops. And I don't even like shots. Alafairnadia, you're just such a generous and giving soul! :twisted:

pitu · December 2005

Subject: Re: slope sales

RAH wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]
you fucking rule! show up at a happy hour/festivus, and I'm buying you a shot.

don't be fooled. alafairnadia routinely buys shots just to get the DHers at happy hour drunk. and if you say you don't want one the bartender will probably happen to have made "extras" by accident.

hey thanks!
I don't about no lemon drops tho . . . do they have a decent brand of tequila?

steve · December 2005

I started my business (Quick Byte) 8 years ago with flyers around Park Slope. I think it's a neighborhood thing as much as anything. The grumpy old men annoy me.

whyfi · December 2005

Subject: Re: slope sales

pitu wrote: . . . do they have a decent brand of tequila?

Hey! Looks like I'LL have to buy you a shot!!!

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