Max raskin6/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Bush told us to go about our business after 9/11? When he threw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium in the World Series that year? The city recovered in no small part from this tone at the top. ![]() Cuomo should simply level with constituents about risks. Instead of always taking the cautious approach to the virus, de Blasio and Gov. Will we survive the loss of this institution? Yes - but we don’t have to. Oh, and not to bury the lede: A haircut is only $23. Depending on who approaches, Alberto will answer in Italian, Spanish or English and even more expressive gestures. He’s always playing the Eagles and the Beatles and sometimes lets an aria slip in. Hizzoner’s barber, Alberto Amore, displays swag from his favorite Italian football team, Juventus, as well as pictures of celebrity clients and his life mottos. The diversity here is unique: The shop’s barbers speak Spanish, Italian, French, German, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Greek, Farsi, Portuguese and “even a little English.” You feel the comforting chaos of a cosmopolis. The large room is filled with cubicles decorated with personalized flair that give the shop a county-fair atmosphere.Įach barber’s pictures and tchotchkes make it their space, and you feel like you’re a part of their team. When you first enter Astor Hair, you walk down a flight of stairs it’s like getting your haircut in the subway. Instead, our leaders’ scaremongering and aggressive restrictions have crippled the economy Astor’s closure is the result. With the proper city leadership, this barbershop - and businesses like it - can endure. Its demise is not foreordained, despite COVID. But this time feels different.Īstor Hair is not a store that sells typewriters or top hats. Change is a constant fact of life in this city, and it’s good to make peace with it. When a New York institution like CBGB or Ratner’s closes, there’s real loss and sadness. Mayor de Blasio and I go to the same barber, but we’ll soon have to stop: After 74 years, Astor Place Hairstylists is closing. Uncle Sam needn’t default, royal pains’ Ziegfeld folly and other commentary New York to drop COVID vaccine requirement for health care workers after SeptemberĪndrew Cuomo has no regrets in handling COVID crisis, denies sex harassment claims What is long COVID? 12 defining symptoms revealed
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