[EVG file photo from like the winter]
After sitting empty for nearly seven years, 14 Avenue B has a new tenant.
Shampoo Avenue B has signed a lease for the space here between East Houston and East Second Street, as the Commercial Observer reported yesterday.
The salon will be moving from their current home at 42 Avenue B. Owner-operator Joel St. Yves told us that, depending on the construction inside the new storefront, they're hoping to move by the middle of next month.
He said that the new space will double the amount of the chairs in their current home. St. Yves also said they are adding two barbers "for cuts and shaves" to the salon's roster.
There's a long recent history at 14 Avenue B. This had been a popular space for new bar concepts that scared the crap out of the neighbors.
However, CB3 nixed various bar concepts here through the years, including the infamous Italian restaurant "with an occasional D.J." and the brewpub that borrowed the Prime Meats menu. The last actual tenant here was the loathsome Butterfly bar/club/expensive drink dispenser, which closed in 2007.
Joseph at Shampoo is fierce. He's cut my hair for a long time now (even before his gig at Shampoo) and he is a genius with hair, an old-school New Yorker, a friend to the animals, and a really handsome dude to boot.
ReplyDeleteI just felt compelled to say this :p
Hate to see anyone renting space from Kushner, but better this then another nightlife establishment.
ReplyDelete@ anon 5:52
ReplyDeleteWell, they inherited Steve Croman as their landlord in the current space... he has rent-hiked 3 businesses from nearby storefronts