Heaven knows what a great event this is, because it seldom rains on the parade of the 200, 300, 400 West Block Associations Community Stoop Sale. Truth be told, it’s more about schmoozing than shopping, more concerned with milling about than making a buck — but all of these things happen, when longtime residents and newbies alike set up tables or line their stoops with bargain-priced booty from their eclectic, functional and often collectable stock of books, toys, clothes and other small items.
There will be no food or large furniture for sale — just good stuff, priced to move and easy to carry, sold by reasonable people who aren’t entirely opposed to a little friendly haggling.
It takes place on Sat., May 16 from 11 a.m.–4 p.m., primarily on W. 22nd St. from Seventh to 10th Aves. Email 300wba@gmail.com for helpful hints on participating (residents of other blocks are welcome to join in).
A table in front of 321 W. 22nd St. serves as headquarters, where generous merchants can donate some of their profits to the good work done by your 200W, 300W and 400W Block Associations.
BONUS ACTIVITY: On the very same day as the Stoop Sale, 9 a.m.–12 p.m., the Chelsea Garden Club and the Lower East Side Ecology Center will be showing gardeners how to properly use compost in tree beds. Master composters will be there to help out. The meeting place is the southeast corner of 30th St. at Ninth Ave., at 9 a.m.
—Scott Stiffler
