Monday, June 13, 2016

After 2 months, J-Mar Special Touch barber shop closes on East 6th Street


[Photo from April 2 by Vinny & O]

J-Mar Special Touch barber shop opened at 343 E. Sixth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue in early April.

There was a price cut within a few weeks of opening...


[Photo from May 6 by Vinny & O]

...and by Saturday, workers had cleared out the space... bringing an end to J-Mar Special Touch's two-plus-month run...


[Photo by Michael Hirsch]

Until last fall, the space housed a rental shop that specialized in Bollywood cinema.
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6 comments:

  1. Michael IvanJune 13, 2016 at 9:20 AM

    Yikes. : / ... Hopefully they got out with a good guy lease clause, and aren't getting financially waterboarded or anything.

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  2. AnonymousJune 13, 2016 at 10:18 AM

    So sorry to see this, it is really hard to get a new business off the ground in less inflated times, today it might be impossible.

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  3. AnonymousJune 13, 2016 at 9:27 PM

    barber shops are the new fro-yo. There's an average of 2 per block these days.

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  4. AnonymousJune 14, 2016 at 4:55 PM

    So men don't get their hair cut anymore?

    Idea for an enterprising barber:

    A barber's chair in a bar - call yourself "(Your Name) The Bar-ber".

    Why not? A guy grabs a beer or two and thinks "I need a haircut" - there you go.

    The bar-ber puts a haircutting cloak on you so no hair falls to the floor LOL.

    Here's one for only $4.98 total including shipping:

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/2016-Adult-Foldable-Hair-Cutting-Cloak-Umbrella-Cape-Salon-Barber-for-Salon-/252352586942?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

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  5. Mark Hand The CatchmanJune 15, 2016 at 9:27 AM

    There are a lot of Barber Shops in this nabe... one up the block on 6th by Bowery [where I go to] one on 5th closer to A, [not]Royal on St Marks and of course the BorgCube of barber shops: Astor Place Hair...
    When I was young and poor, it was the barber shop school on 9th and 3rd which was huge until rental prices skyrocketed and it became smaller and smaller, moved around the corner to 10th and then closed

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  6. AnonymousJune 15, 2016 at 3:48 PM

    They didn't have a liquor license, that's why they're closing.

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