Up and Down and Up Again: A Brief History of Stoops

How much is your stoop worth? Unsurprisingly, quite a lot. Surprisingly, it hasn’t always been that way.

The New York Times has a story today about the history of stoops, and while I would have predicted it would be a very short article (Stoops: They Were Built), I would have been completely wrong. Because stoops, it turns out, have had their ups and downs (steps, get it?!) over the past century and a half, just like the rest of us.