There's a screening of the documentary by Karen Gehres, "Astor Barber All-Stars," tomorrow night at the Anthology Film Archives.
Ahead of this, the Post has a feature on the film today … noting many of regulars through the years at the Astor Place Hairstylists, such as Mayor de Blasio and his son Dante.
De Blasio has frequented the Greenwich Village institution for about 30 years, according to John Vezza, one of the shop's co-owners.
"He's been coming since he was in college [at NYU]," Vezza said.
Hizzoner sits in Alberto Amore’s chair and practices his Italian on the Sicily native.
"He loves to speak in Italian. He calls me professor because I only speak in Italian," Amore said with pride. "He reads the paper in Italian. If there's a word he doesn’t understand, he says, ‘What does it mean, this.'"
Check out the trailer ...
The shop has been here since 1939. Jeremiah Moss wrote about it back in April 2012: "it's one of the last places in the East Village that still feels like the East Village. More than that, it still feels like New York City."
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