If my Best New York Gardening Blogs roundup post wasn't enough to inspire you to get outside and garden, check out the amazing collection of stoop shots from Stoopin' Around — a new blog that collects curb appeal around New York City.
These shots are all from Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill but Stoopin' Around promises more "stoops, sidewalks, balconies, window ledge, rooftops, and backyards" soon.
For more shots of inspirational front stoops and Brooklyn, see Stoopin' Around
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These pots don't get stolen or vandalized ?
these pictures make me so happy i live in cobble hill. best neighborhood in new york! IMO of course... :)
joeshack - i'm sure it happens here and there, but these are very safe, low-key neighborhoods without a lot of vandalism.
Agree with duckumu that there is not a lot of vandalism/theft in the neighborhood (I'm in Park Slope). But surprisingly, large shrubs/trees in planters have been stolen from yards. My neighbor had two people come, pull mature shrubs out of planters, load onto a truck and drive away before any of us knew what was going on. I think the small ones are safe because there isn't much resale potential!
I love my home boro -- Brooklyn pride!!! But I have to say I've seen some people chain their plants to their stoops . . .
I really like this clean, minimal stoop planting:
http://brooklynroofgarden.com/2010/05/16/modern-brooklyn-stoop-container-garden/
Ooh I want to move to Cobble Hill so much! I currently live in Bushwick (first NYC apt, give me a break) and I yearn to be able to walk out the door and see such pretty sights.
They should come to Bay Ridge -the most under-appreciated Brooklyn neighborhood.
[and our plants and planters never get stolen!]
Those are beautiful homes...
...and yes, its amazing that someone hasnt come along to steal the items off the stairs.
Planters on both sides of the stairs make me nervous. I'd be afraid of tripping over one or the other. I prefer the look of planters on one side and open rail on the other.
However, photos 5 and 9 do demonstrate symmetry in a way that doesn't make me nervous. But I'm afraid that photo 1 is plotting my imminent demise.
I was helping a disabled friend apartment hunt all over Brooklyn a couple of months ago. She kept turning around to look for me, disappeared down the block taking pics of wonderful stoops!
The cast and carved escutcheons, cornices, newels and corbels of Brooklyn are amazing! What a great place, so much positive energy there.
they stoop to conquer! don't forget kids, manhattan has great stoop blocks too. see, chelsea, upper west side, and harlem to start.
dear jrossi1217:
Have no fear. Your day will come. After 5 years in Bushwick underwelmed and suffocated by my environment, I just signed a lease on a Brooklyn Heights apartment. I don't even live there yet, but every day after work I go and walk around, not quite convinced that this beautiful neighborhood will soon be my home. MY HOME!!! It will be yours too, soon enough, if you picture it. Keep dreaming. It'll happen.
I agree w/ thorndale, look at those doors, the porches are unbelievable!
I'm sure any larger/established East Coast city has this but when I went to DC last fall, I was in total awe of the stoops in Logan Circle and Adams Morgan. Beau-tee-ful, so jealous :)