It's only 1:15 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, but Yona Zeldis McDonough, 56, has already been to five stoop sales. Purchases in her now-brimming shopping cart include a $5 Tocca blouse, a Laura Ashley frock for the same price and several vintage dresses she scored for only $4 a pop. "I love the hunt!" the Brooklyn novelist enthuses. "I love the discovery!"
Stoop sales have arrived in full force with summer, when New Yorkers pound the pavement each weekend in search of everything from clothes to sporting goods sold by their neighbors. For a breakdown of standard stoop-sale finds — and tips on how to distinguish treasure from trash — The Post recruited stoop-sale buff Arianna Rebolini for a day of shopping. As editor of local blog parkslopestoop.com, the 27-year-old compiles a weekly list of the neighborhood's best sales. A resident of the nabe, she shops them, too — a habit she developed growing up in the suburbs of Long Island.
"My mother is a fiend for garage sales, so we would go every weekend," Rebolini says of her early deal-seeking days.
"It's in my blood."
We ventured to Park Slope, where you can't throw an old earring without hitting a stoop sale, and stopped at three — one three blocks long. We found lots of bargains and met a lot of bargain hunters along the way. Here's what we uncovered.
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Stoop-sale expert Arianna Rebolini is game for a bargain at one of the stops along Reeve Place in Park Slope.
11 A.M.: Reeve Place, between Prospect Park Southwest and Prospect Avenue
Organized annually by Reeve Place residents, this neighborhood-wide sale spans three blocks and more than a dozen stoops. While Nicholas and Anita Viola hawked a Monopoly game for $5 and a pair of Dan Post boots for $25, both brand-new, Nader El Rachidi and Valeria Bassot attempted to entice shoppers with two sets of lefty golf clubs ($10 to $20 per club) and bags to tote them around in for $30 each. A $3 Ketel One martini shaker and a 12-piece dinner set priced at $10 garnered attention at Efrain and Carmen Torres' stoop, though Rebolini was most impressed by the apparel for sale.
"If this was in [Brooklyn consignment store] Beacon's Closet, you'd easily pay $10 for it," says Rebolini, pointing out a kitschy Coca-Cola sweater, "but they're selling it for $3." A bright windbreaker tagged for $3 also piques her interest. "Neon is everywhere," she notes of the jacket's trendy appeal, "and so is color blocking."
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Rebolini (left) shows off a stylish magenta wrap dress she found at a Bergen Street stop for just $10.
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