He picked up the keys and led the way up the creaky staircase.

New Yorkers like to think that the famous or infamous walked the same creaky old staircase or sat on the same concrete stoop, and chances are, they're right.

There was a deep cut on the index finger; a wound she'd somehow suffered on that creaky old staircase, probably.

I sipped sherry and imagined shoring up the creaky staircases in a hotel in its second millennium.

I returned to the middle of the building and went up the creaky staircase to the balcony, where six more doors awaited me.

Then he led me up a creaky wooden staircase to my room.

Led by a museum staff member, participants will tour a creaky central staircase and find out how it stands up; individual model staircases will also be designed.

Her place evinces a kind of frumpy minimalism that is rather appealing, with all the quaint details of a Village abode: a bedroom fireplace, a creaky wooden staircase, an adorable little garden.

Her second-floor apartment is reached by a creaky rear staircase in a four-story frame building that has three other apartment units and, on the top floor, unheated summer efficiencies.

A creaky wooden staircase (also original) leads to the upstairs dining room.