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Kyriacos Demetriou (Greek: Δημητρίου Κυριάκος, known as Mr. Kay) (April 14, 1919 – May 14, 1999) was a New York City barber known for his adherence to traditional practices within his craft. [1] [2] [3] Mr. Kay was born in Cyprus, but his family moved to England when he was an infant.
From 1893 to 1911, 5–7 Doyers Street was the site of the first Chinese language theater in New York City. The theater was converted into a rescue mission for the homeless. In 1903, the theater was the site of a fundraiser by the Chinese community for Jewish victims of a massacre in Kishinev .
Exterior of a shop in Seattle in 2024. Rudy's Barbershop is a chain of barbershops founded in Seattle, Washington by Alex Calderwood, David Petersen and Wade Weigel in 1993, with locations primarily on the United States West Coast. Calderwood and Weigel would later go on to also co-found the Ace Hotel group in 1999.
Hero barber disarms gunman who opened fire in busy NYC barbershop—as community leaders call for more police on the crime-infested Queens block Desheania Andrews, Zoe Hussain November 11, 2024 at ...
The Barber Shop Quartet in New York City's Harlem neighborhood was founded in 2007 as an outreach program of the Men's Ministry at Abyssinian Baptist Church. The Barber Shop Quartet provides free men's health screenings for hypertension , diabetes , prostate cancer and colon cancer .
The New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) bought the NYW&B within the Bronx north of East 180th Street in April 1940 for $1,800,000 and rehabilitated the line. [ 12 ] : 59–60 The first train, an official train consisting of four cars with the Mayor and City officials, departed from East 180th Street on May 15, 1941.
The New York City Department of City Planning classifies East Harlem into two neighborhood tabulation areas: East Harlem North and East Harlem South, divided along 115th Street. [37] The two areas had a combined population of 115,921, an increase of 1,874 (1.4%) from the combined 114,047 in the 2000 Census .
Media in category "Images of New York City" The following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total. New York City taxi cabs.JPG 3,264 × 2,448; 3.38 MB.