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# Stoop Sales: A New No-No?
- URL: https://bklyner.com/stoop-sales-a-new-no-no-parkslopestoop/
- Published: 2012-08-28T14:01:33.000Z
- Updated: 2012-08-28T14:01:33.000Z
- Author: Jean
- Tags: stoop sales, #API-Imported

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/stoop.jpg "stoop")

Local blogs are a-buzz with the news thatthe NYPD shut down a sidewalk “stoop sale” on Flatbush near Grand Army Plaza*.* The seller reported on the [Brooklynian forum](http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/police-shut-down-my-stoop-sale?ref=bklyner.com) that she was told “You can’t do that here.”

> I told them I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong, and that we have a stoop sale every couple of years and have never had a problem. They asked where I lived and I gestured to my apartment building right behind me. I also said that I wasn’t blocking the sidewalk–since there was probably 10 feet open.

> Then the second cop asked, “Do you have a license?”

Others hint that there may have been [ulterior motives or third-party complaints](http://gothamist.com/2012/08/27/nypd%5Fshuts%5Fdown%5Fpark%5Fslope%5Fstoop%5Fsa.php?ref=bklyner.com), as some of the tenants of the building where the sale was taking place are in a dispute with the landlord. And of course, there is the usual controversy over whether it was *technically* a stoop sale or whether it is even *technically* Park Slope. Much ado about very little, in the end.