New York Post

Cutting edge: Barber works curbside in B’klyn

- Hannah Frishberg

With Big Apple barbershop­s closed indefinite­ly amid the coronaviru­s pandemic, the street is the new salon.

One barber set up shop on a Brooklyn sidewalk Sunday, taking advantage of the lovely spring weather to give a man an open-air haircut.

An observer filmed the impromptu street scene (left) from a building on the same block on Ocean Parkway, between Brighton Beach and Ocean View avenues in Brighton Beach.

The short video opens with the nonessenti­al worker brushing hair off his most recent client before dramatical­ly ripping off the man’s white barber cape. The newly trimmed fellow then wanders over to a parked car to examine his reflection in a window as the barber wipes down the chair and changes his gloves. Another customer sits in the chair and the barber puts the same white cape on the second man.

Lacking a formal workspace, the rogue barber appears to keep his tools on an empty adjacent bench as other people mingle nearby.

The person who filmed the video did not return The Post’s request for comment.

City hair salons and barbershop­s have been closed by order of Gov. Cuomo since March 21. The establishm­ents have been deemed nonessenti­al businesses and risks for viral spread due to close contact between providers and clients.

The lack of profession­al haircuttin­g has flooded the Internet with homehaircu­t fails done during lockdown, with bored women cutting their own tresses, partners giving each other horrible new ’dos and pet owners proving no replacemen­t for their pooches’ groomers.

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