She collapsed on a nearby stoop, holding her hand over her heart.

A group of teens stood talking on the corner, and two little girls sat on a nearby stoop with their Barbie dolls.

An hour later her husband found him as he was bedding down for the night on a nearby stoop to give him $1,000.

She remembered having passed a stranger with a duffle bag on a nearby stoop.

Flowers and two candles had been placed on a nearby stoop.

He parked himself on a nearby stoop as she continued walking, oblivious to his presence.

The black men approached a nearby stoop where, the prosecutor said, Mr. Schicchi was sitting.

Miss Sparhawk, a 44-year-old painting contractor, confronted a stranger on a nearby stoop.

Outside, there were sullen looks on the faces of the young children sitting on nearby stoops.

A block farther on, a snake-lady called out a proposition from the top of a nearby stoop.