Stoop Stories | Documentary Storytelling Project | New York

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Stoop Stories is a documentary storytelling project designed to connect, support, and celebrate our NYC neighbors, especially those hardest hit by the pandemic and systemic inequities. We honor generations of New Yorkers, past and present, who rejoice and take refuge in stoop culture.

Keefer, a Brooklyn Postal Carrier, on his route in Boerum Hill

Jessica, a single mom with MS, and her toddler, Mila, create their own stoop with 2 chairs in Carroll Gardens

Laurence and Reggie with their kids, Simon, Emanuel & Esther, and grandma Sheila. Simon chalked the George Floyd mural in front of their Boerum Hill home

"Living together as sisters for 60 years. Sometimes she get on my nerves, sometimes I get on hers.
But we don't go to bed angry. We were told not to do that."