Mecca Is Here

East Villagers certainly remember the formerly-beloved Mecca of Hair on First Avenue. It was like Mecca, except for hair!

According to this sign outside the beloved Perfection Barbershop on Avenue C, Mecca is here now:

Be here now, like Mecca.

If you're wondering what Perfection Barbershop looks like when closed, it looks like this:

Perfection closed.

Yellowy!

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Employees Only

I was walking up Avenue C the other day, when I saw an open cellar door in front of the beloved Perfection barbershop. Nothing special about that, I said to myself, until I got closer!

Behold:

Beyond the cellar door.

Have you ever seen such a tidy cellar?! — and a door, like the one you had growing up as a kid!

In case you can't read the sign on the door, it says Employees Only.

It's important to let people who enter your cellar know which areas are restricted… in the East Village Today!

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The Barbers

Don Juan is a barber who has operated out of this space on East 4th Street for at least ten years:

Don Juan, the barber.

You may notice the bicycle sculpture from an earlier post!

Recently, Perfection opened around the corner from Don Juan, on Avenue C, between the drug building and the bodega:

Perfection.

Perfection used to be located a block away, near East 3rd Street, but moved out when the building they were in was condemned by the Department of Buildings.

Can two barbers share a corner, without driving each other crazy?!

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